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by arebop
5710 days ago
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> Google has taken away freedom from it's users to do as they want with their data (i.e. transfer it unidirectionally to Facebook). This is a fact. OK, but when you say "its users" you seem to be talking about the millions who have stored contacts data with Google, when actually you are talking about the hundreds who build apps that have other users. Google has not taken away freedom from its users to do as they want with their data (e.g. transfer it unidirectionally to Facebook), except for those of its users that operate services or applications that limit the freedom of other users to do as they want with their data. THAT is also a fact, and one that says something about all the users who have contacts data stored with Google. |
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The hundreds of application developers have absolutely no right to access that contact information.
It is the users who have the freedom to give other applications permission to access their data, and it is that freedom that Google is taking away.
To me this means that Google doesn't respect its users rights to do what they want to do with their data.
What if Microsoft prevented users from their loading word documents into Google Apps because they disliked some of Google's policies?
If Google really believes that the data belongs to their users, then they would let their users decide what to do with it, even if the users want to give it to a company that Google finds threatening.