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Oh hey, Google+ is shutting down after it was shown to be exactly the privacy and accountability tar pit I was concerned about. And oh cool, people that provided their “real name” and real info had their data scraped by parties unknown, too.
I totally did not see that coming at all. </s>
(As a reminder, I work for a Google competitor, so opinions my own. None of these observations are based on privileged info.)
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Which I guess is a good reminder to be skeptical about what personal data to give corporations, even ones with relatively good data handling hygiene at the time.
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@mawr This perfectly articulates why business people scare me. Until we are more than numbers to toy with without accountability, this is going to continue to happen.
Also, I contest that it’s even true for money at a bank, given the creative accounting and surge in white collar crime in the naughts that we still haven’t recovered from.
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@Goldkin Random thought:
"Your money is safe at the bank" is only true because you don't care how many people's hands the money passes through, or if the money you get back is "yours" or not, just if the amounts line up.
"Your data is safe with the company" is marketing bullshit and should be taken as such, since the two are basically the same commodity as viewed by companies like Google.