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Yes IF the Terms of Services and UI communicate otherwise. It's not normal for a company like Google to break ToS or Privacy Policy, would be quite novel.

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All they have to do is change it after the fact. The idea that they would self-police is laughable.

If they want to do something with your data they just change the terms before they do it, it is so easy and consequence free to legally abuse this that I'm not sure why you think they would do it the illegal way.

Public perception. "Look, we care about your privacy! We won't use your data!"

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Quietly update the ToS to allow them to retroactively use all of your history and data going forward, attempt to fly under the radar and/or gaslight users that it's always been that way

Can you give an example of when they did this to retroactively shield themselves.

I don't think people understand that while consumers are dumb, uneducated, and broke, enterprise is a cash cow with a experts and a legal team.

If you serve them, like Google does on a massive scale, these ToS "gotchas" will do you in faster than you can say "lawsuit".

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