Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined
They shouldnt be reading and playing with things privately stored. Are they going to go through all my documents to replace any swear words? It’s completely inexcusable. Private doesn’t mean private until some big company asks about it wtf.
It’s not on bookmarks. Is on collections(a different thing) that are public, shareable and technically hosted by Google. This whole thing has been overblown by not fact checking.
It deleted them from public and private collections.
If google was taking out mentions of Tiananmen Square at China’s request, would you be okay with it?
What do you mean by privately stored if you’re saving it in some google application?
I don’t think something becomes public just because it’s saved in a Google app. I consider the contents of my gdrive private and my own. There’s ethics to consider that go wildly beyond “if it ends up on Google’s hardrive, it automatically belongs to them”.
I don’t know how useful a public versus private distinction is here or in the current big tech digital age generally. The point is that if you’re storing your data on google servers, you aren’t entitled to (or receiving) any privacy from them or anyone they choose to sell your data and/or information to. They give you cheap storage because they’re interested in mining your data; it’s highly, highly profitable
If that’s the case (what OP mentioned), I think it’s still the responsibility of who made those effing laws. You cannot ask a corporation to break the law to protect your privacy. But you can definitely ask your representative to protect it
It’s not an order from the president, they could easily say no and fight it.
If they have anything to gain from it financially, which they probably don’t in this case, and are even being kind enough to let you know what they’re removing.
Corporations aren’t nice to be nice, it usually helps their bottom line when they are.
This is google we’re talking about, there never was any privacy to begin with, and what you believed was there was always just an illusion. This was always their interpretation of the ideal and power of the internet with its “free sharing of ideas and knowledge” - they literally went with including personal data in that much like facebook and both have yet to be stopped or held accountable to start treating it as such.
Please contact your congressperson. Having dealt with shit like this, a company’s other option is fines approaching infinity and jail time for those who don’t comply. We elected the people who did this.
We should be angry at corporations for monopolistic behavior, using profits from one business to prop up another and drown competitors (Bard), cross-business-unit offerings that smaller companies can’t compete with (Prime shipping, video, music), not this. This is a company complying with a terrible law.
