[imglorp]

It so happens Google has the perfect means at its disposal for de-anonymizing large swaths of such data: trillions of user location records, calendar appointments, emails, and texts. It's not too hard to put all that together to match a specific encounter record, for example.

[jtmcmc]

which would both violate their contract and also be illegal.

[neerdowell]

And Google would never break the law or breach a contract. Especially a contract they signed with the UK Government.

I mean, other than that time just a few years ago[0] where Google broke the law and then breached the contract they signed with the UK Government.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19014206

[retox]

I do not trust Google and I am not being given a choice.