Google Says It's Finally Giving Users Privacy. Here's the Painful, Monumental Catch

guest · May 12, 2019

Google Says It's Finally Giving Users Privacy. Here's the Painful, Monumental Catch
Whenever a tech company makes big promises, beware the small print
May 12, 2019
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/google-says-you-get-privacy-heres-painful-monumental-catch.html

Google is giving you privacy.
Lots of privacy. Privacy here, there and everywhere.

Yes, it's introduced more privacy and security controls which, in the latest version of Android, might even amount to 50 elements for you to toggle away at.
It's also putting it entirely in users' hands to work out how all these controls work and what they all mean.

Because it knows the vast majority of users just don't and won't do it.
What Google is really doing it making it very difficult, even for those who really want to make a change.
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The Verge's Executive Editor Dieter Bohn put it quite elegantly:

Google: our advanced AI algorithms can predict what car you want to rent and then fill out the web form for you. It knows what you want and just does it.

Us: Cool I want privacy.

Google: you got it here are 500 opaque settings across 25 disparate apps and web pages.
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Daveski17 · May 12, 2019

That's come catch, that catch 22.

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