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by astrocat
4306 days ago
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> the question is: do you trust google? This is too myopic of a question. Do you trust Apple? Do you trust Microsoft? Do you trust ____? There are arbitrarily many of these questions to ask. What really needs to be asked is: how can we establish levels of trust in companies and services that handle our digital information that approaches the level of trust we have in our direct, inter-personal connections? Not ratting on your friend is trust established through close social connections. Trusting Google to not sell you out is a level of trust established... how? |
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It's trust from potential destruction. If Google was obviously using your email contents to sell you out, then people would stop using the service. It's like how people don't want to give out their email address to certain organisations out of fear of spam and phishing.
Google can't exist without that trust, so they're incentivised to act in a trustworthy manner.