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Comment by vijaybritto | Hacker News Reader

Is google using this in their own products? They were just fined $170M in the past few days!

I think you'll find legislators are less worried about something being "mathematically proven to protect privacy robustly", and more worried about just collecting money from someone publicly perceived as evil.

If they cared about actual privacy, they would go after no-name ad networks and data mining companies.

Do you have information showing that the FTC's ruling was unjust?

As far as the companies they go after, I think going after large brand-name ad networks and data mining companies like Google is at least as important as going after the no-name ones.

And why not start with the source? Google and Facebook sell your data to the ad networks, maybe Google and Facebook receive more complaints against then some unknown ad networks that we did not know even existed before GDPR forced the sites to disclose them.

Could you provide some source about Google selling your data to ad networks? Because Google explicitly says that they don’t do that and none of the fines received by Google is for selling your data. I’m curious to read about this.

It was on HN yesterday: https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/

What you say was questioned recently by Brave, see HN play from 2-3 days ago.

(not selling per see, more like carelessly giving away)

Personally, whether or not Google actually sells raw data isn't that important to me. My objection is that they (and all other companies that do this) collect the data in the first place.

First sentence of the 3rd paragraph:

> Today, we’re rolling out the open-source version of the differential privacy library that helps power some of Google’s core products.

Now, all they have to do is to find a way to prove us that they actually run this open-source code in Google's products

Download Chrome's source code, it's been using DP for years (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...)

The fine had nothing to do with this.

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