> Here are just a few of our default-on safety measures: > • We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts. So, all participants need to create Google accounts. How convenient for Google. I don't necessarily want to ascribe maliciousness here—there are certainly user-centric reasons to set it up this way. But, isn't it interesting how many of the secu…
Freedom and privacy are often at odds with security in most areas in life. During war-like situations, security (speaking in the general sense, rather than purely technical) becomes a greater concern, so those companies that have positioned themselves that way will have increased opportunities.
There are other solutions around authentication that would be perfectly fine and still privacy-conscious. It's just that anything other than forcing you to login using a Google account doesn't mesh with their strategy of ensnaring users and adding to their all-encompassing profile of you.