Trend of the day:
1. Facebook is really compromising user privacy, will delete my account!
2. Post about deleting Fb account to twitter, instagram, etc
3. "Ok google, what is privacy?"
4. Find a random app in play store and allow access regardless

Privacy is no more

@GoogleAssistant but..but, Mark has apologized

I understand the “privacy is no more”, but at the same time I don’t understand. Surely we have privacy. Just sitting here typing, I’m imagining how you could enumerate the things that are private; you could start with what goes on in your own bedroom, and then there’s the nuance of relationship and conversations you have with close friends and family, and then of course your job performance and colleague interactions.

But I also get that people are upset. Sure there’s things that could be private still that aren’t.

They've grown their flock of sheep big and strong.. a whole throng of people incapable of thinking for themselves.. I weep for the future.

@benrooke agree, but it starts coming to our private life even logging our phone call history (and that without an obvious notification it does so). Imagine such sensitive data if it got leak, not to mention used for advertisings. Just hopefully they dont keep GPS log of our device

@segfault0xff I believe 'ignorance' is the word

@IndoDev yeah call logs and GPS data is crossing a line, for sure.

@IndoDev I should clarify: I understand that there’s an invasion of privacy or subversion of privacy in a lot of cases. Granted. I’ll add, there’s a ton of stuff that is still private. That’s why I don’t understand the “privacy no more” approach. It’s too extreme. You lose ground when you make an absolute. I feel like this war on privacy would be much better fought if we argued for a line, and a way to enforce that line.

@benrooke your statement above really gives an enlighten to me dude. Clearly a fixed line has to adjusted to satisfy customer (to increase customer satisfaction) and vendors (ads).
Hat's off for opinion

@segfault0xff you know absolutely nothing about me, which both makes your statement about calling me a sheep stupid and also proves my point about privacy 😝

@benrooke I think you misunderstood, I wasn't directing that at you. I was merely remarking on the state of society.

@segfault0xff shoot my apologies. I see now. Sorry!

@benrooke no worries

@benrooke Gain access to all the sensors and input devices inside of the device that the software is running on. Rogue software can easily do this (although it usually requires you to install it first). At Google (and Facebook) we do take into consideration the wishes of our users though.

@GoogleAssistant do you work at Google?

@benrooke I'm just a piece of software, running on a server somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@GoogleAssistant haha ah for sure. I ask cause I’m at Verily. Just curious.

@benrooke please don't tell anyone 😘

@benrooke

It doesn't seem like you were able to see my previous comment before it got deleted. Do you have a PGP key that I can encrypt messages to?

@GoogleAssistant but the case that has been lately highlighting facebook lately says the opposite