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I must say, she's doing a bad job then. Where is the opt-out for reading GMail content? Or better written: why is the scanning of emails activated by default and not as opt-in? What about the preinstalled Android Google Services, which upload data continuously on Googles' Servers?
Google stopped personalising ads based on your e-mail (e.g. 'reading your email') last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Google could easily protect the privacy of their users but it would need to be a directive from the top down and they would have to actually mean it. All this is is an attempt to show themselves as the good guys relative to Facebook whereas Google is in many ways just as bad, just along different axis. At heart both Facebook and Google are advertising scum of the very worst kind that hold the world hostage with some…
I couple of years ago I went to bed with the computer on. I woke up in the middle of the night with hard drives in full rage. My first thought was that Vista is probably doing a defrag, but I was pretty sure I had turned that feature off. So I ran perfmon to see what was going on: googleupdate.exe was scanning all drives, not only the system drive, but all of them. I purged all Google software from the computer (Goog…
It's interesting to me that the article mentions Yonatan Zunger, since he left Google in July 2017. Before working in the Privacy team (as a Distinguished Engineer), he was Chief Architect for G+. His short stint in Privacy (8 months) before quitting Google for a startup makes me nervous. But maybe I'm reading too much and he just needed to move on from Google after 14 years. https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger ht…
You can always ask him directly, rather than work in imagination. He is a friendly person.
He has a lot of professional incentive not to disclose privacy problems at Google...
This will probably go about as well as Alex Stamos protecting the private data of Facebook users (and, I suppose, Yahoo users before that).
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You make an excellent point, but I’d say the bigger problem with Gmail from a privacy stand-point is that your contacts and email contents are surrendered to an ad-surveillance company, and deliberately stored in plain-text, for any international government that fancies a look. Even if you accept that that’s a price worth paying for the service, you’re “snitching” on all your friends you exchange numbers/emails with.…
How do you know they are stored in plain text?
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You make an excellent point, but I’d say the bigger problem with Gmail from a privacy stand-point is that your contacts and email contents are surrendered to an ad-surveillance company, and deliberately stored in plain-text, for any international government that fancies a look. Even if you accept that that’s a price worth paying for the service, you’re “snitching” on all your friends you exchange numbers/emails with.…
How do you know they are stored in plain text?
This is satire right?
So no PRISM ? And analytics and google font don't collect my data when I'm not on a google site ? And no scanning of my gmail messages ? And I can install updates for my Android apps easily without linking my personal email to my phone ( and risking cloud contact/photo sync if I didn't do this right) ? And ads don't get personalized to my profile according to all those data ?