An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small.

Not a surprise but man

I don’t fully agree with you. It’s certainly no major coverup but it’s a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public

Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale

When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently ‘keeping private info safe’ (or should I say ‘not being evil’) is at the bottom of their priority list

I thought they got rid of that from the list altogether when they realized they couldn’t not be evil while simultaneously maximizing profits

Not really. It’s gone from the alphabet handbook, not Google’s.

Which was a hilarious bit for me recently with a guy saying “I HAVE THE HANDBOK FOR GOOGLE” and getting all upset despite my repeatedly pointing out that it was removed for alphabet, which is a different company.

It also got moved around in the Google handbook a bit. Still exists though.

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Yeah or basically all data is a risk, no matter how private the company claims to be

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