91–100 of 138 posts
One annoying thing about this is that it allows spammers to automatically add events to your calendar.
So THAT'S how they've been doing it. For the past week I've been inundated with spam events on my Google Calendar, it's been winding me right up.
Applications try to be extra-clever (more clever than their users) and think 2 steps further ... thus doing more than the users said.
So in my opinion, it is not only a privacy problem, but a problem of our "computing-" era. Applications get more and more clever, but in the effect they become extra-stupid, not doing what the user really wants, but doing what the programmer thought (or worse, some weird AI thought) could be right to do now.
I think, the reason is, that somehow applications must more and more show that they are "better" than just simple eMail, or just simple groupware or just a simple (you name it), as it existed before and as thousands exists as open source apps. The way it goes, is adding some "extra benefit" (same as in the food area) to the applications. But sometimes the extra benefit plainly backfires.
That's also the reason, I shiver when I think that the car industry wants cars that more and more take over control. That will become a big mess!
I also will reduce my usage of Google products, because it becomes more and more "you have to do it the Google-way" products and I must say, that e.g. Gmail has worsen it's user experience over time ...
>Google really needs to work harder at protecting the privacy of its users. They would need to start protecting it first.
D: I work for Google.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems like a business opportunity -- come up with a steady stream of "security issues," then use the resulting access to provide paid customer service for GOOG.
You can get great paid GOOGLE customer service if you just sign up for Google Apps.
Privacy, where it exists, creates impedance in Google's cash flow because it requires designing for some n sigma tail where n does not entail statistical significance and the case analysis must be very fine grained. Google doesn't have a category labeled "private" information". It never has and creating one is not planned. Privacy is not amenable to computer science. It is a social concept not a technical one. The cl…
Yes, but how does this particular privacy leak benefit Google? Google wants to have all your information themselves . Why would they want to give that info to your boss ? This sounds like somebody being really clever and whipping up a fancy feature, but forgetting to finish it with proper meeting requests and a freaking confirmation box and whatnot. The idea itself is good - check for email addresses in meeting infor…
This is why it's not a privacy leak. "Privacy" has no meaning when the context is Google. It only has meaning outside their operations.
Privacy, where it exists, creates impedance in Google's cash flow because it requires designing for some n sigma tail where n does not entail statistical significance and the case analysis must be very fine grained. Google doesn't have a category labeled "private" information". It never has and creating one is not planned. Privacy is not amenable to computer science. It is a social concept not a technical one. The cl…
[deleted]
The recipient's calendar. So, let's say example.org run an Exchange server. I create a reminder saying "Tell phil@example.org he's a jerk". Phil will now see that in his Outlook calendar.
>Google really needs to work harder at protecting the privacy of its users. They would need to start protecting it first.
Google does work extremely hard trying to protect the privacy of its users. Yes, we might miss the boat sometimes but let's not make blanket statements like yours. D: I work for Google.
The first thing that comes to mind is how much information about users Google itself stores and processes. This happened earlier and faster than people learned and understood the consequences of.
The next thing would be how the real name policy can make it difficult to keep someones Youtube-habits separated from a gmail/g+ account.
For you, do these two concerns fall under the term "privacy", or how do you reconcile all of that with your claim "protect the privacy of the users"?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google does work extremely hard trying to protect the privacy of its users. Yes, we might miss the boat sometimes but let's not make blanket statements like yours. D: I work for Google.
Would you be so kind and provide your definition of "privacy"? The first thing that comes to mind is how much information about users Google itself stores and processes. This happened earlier and faster than people learned and understood the consequences of. The next thing would be how the real name policy can make it difficult to keep someones Youtube-habits separated from a gmail/g+ account. For you, do these two c…