Google's employees aren't necessarily trustworthy, besides which they usually comply with government requests for information on their users, making them a de facto part of governments' domestic surveillance programs.
Google fired someone for accessing personal information. Does that not seem like the right move? The move you would want a Big Data Giant to make? And yes, they comply with government requests for information about 70% of the time. And as the number of requests rise they comply with a smaller and smaller percentage of them.
Sure, they handled the problem they created the best way they could while maintaining their business model. And you think saying 'no' 30% of the time makes them tracking you nothing to worry about?Google fired someone for accessing personal information. Does that not seem like the right move? The move you would want a Big Data Giant to make?
And yes, they comply with government requests for information about 70% of the time. And as the number of requests rise they comply with a smaller and smaller percentage of them.
Personally, I'm not worried regardless. On a philosophical level, am I happy with it? I'm not sure.And you think saying 'no' 30% of the time makes them tracking you nothing to worry about?