Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

Post by mehrdadn » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:14 PM UTC

riverbender wrote: post #250

mehrdadn wrote: post #119

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There's probably some other explanation. I wasn't under the impression Google employees can just go read your data like this. And if you want to believe imagine they can -- it'd be dumb of them to do it in this fashion. If you didn't leave your number on your emails/website/resumes/Facebook/etc. or given it out previously then maybe the employee got it from someone else who had your number.

Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine.

Post by riverbender » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

mehrdadn wrote: post #251

riverbender wrote: post #250

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Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine.

> Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine. I in fact do have evidence to believe it's more correct than yours but I have no inclination to discuss it further.

Post by riverbender » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:43 PM UTC

mehrdadn wrote: post #254

riverbender wrote: post #253

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You claim that you have secret proof which you refuse to share, but that sounds more like a troll or a bullshitter than somebody with actual evidence. I wonder why.

> You claim that you have secret proof Evidence. Not proof. And it's not secret. Just not something I'm inclined to share here. > which you refuse to share, but that sounds more like a troll or a bullshitter than somebody with actual evidence. I wonder why. Because of (1) my privacy and (2) the fact that you're attacking me like this. You're welcome to see me as a troll if you'd prefer that.

Post by mehrdadn » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

riverbender wrote: post #255

mehrdadn wrote: post #254

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> You claim that you have secret proof Evidence. Not proof. And it's not secret. Just not something I'm inclined to share here. > which you refuse to share, but that sounds more like a troll or a bullshitter than somebody with actual evidence. I wonder why. Because of (1) my privacy and (2) the fact that you're attacking me like this. You're welcome to see me as a troll if you'd prefer that.

What's the _nature_ of this evidence that you claim to have? I have phone calls and e-mails to a personal g-mail account that make literally no sense to receive _unless_ Google had linked my personal and business accounts in a CRM someplace; an d then given access to personal contact info to some of their staff. > the fact that you're attacking me like this How is this an attack? I've done nothing to you that you did…

Post by bduerst » Wed, May 08, 2019, 4:44 AM UTC

jefftk wrote: post #246

bduerst wrote: post #245

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IP address geolocation is not always accurate, can be spoofed, and is flat out wrong for EU residents who travel outside of the EU. Maybe it's normal for a startup, but for a billion dollar company, they're not going to roll the dice on 4% revenue fines and IP address geolocation.

If you send some test requests to any big company including Google I believe you'll see they're using IPgeo. (Disclosure: I work at Google, I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice)