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I hope Google will at least analyze the idea of privacy, analyze what data they collect and if all of it needs to be collected or kept, when someone suggests let's collect everything there(and in other companies) should be some debate there before is implemented.

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Google sets a pretty good standard over at https://myactivity.google.com/ IMO. But yeah the whole passive data collection e.g Wifi networks done the Street View cars, as one example, bears scrutiny. Likewise Android

How do you know that that's actually all data Google holds on you? Facebook has a shadow profile for every one of its users, one whose contents you cannot access. There's no technical reason Google can't build one, and they have been deceptive in how they collect your information in the past https://apnews.com/ef95c6a91eeb4d8e9dda9cad887bf211

I don't disagree with you, that was deceptive, but man, I could so see myself making that blunder; the developer meant they won't be stored by the Location History tool, whereas the users reasonably read it as meaning by Google.

We now know the cost of mobile privacy from Google's EU pricing. They should just add it as a feature: "Privacy - $40".

Or we could get asked

Do you want the google store(40$), the amazon store(x$), other free store(0$) ?

This ^. There are plenty of ways to build products that don’t require you to prey on your users just so you can have a lot more analytical profiling.

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