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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by colordrops on Monday September 24, 2018 @07:33PM (#18062393)
It's almost a certainty that they will continue down the slippery slope and start syncing data automatically in a future update. That sort of change has happened several times, so there is precedent.
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by visarga on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:26AM (#18064058)
But can't you protect your synced data with a passphrase?
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by ntp85 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:49AM (#18073686)
According to the Chrome privacy policy the synced data is inaccessible to Google if it is encrypted with a passphrase, even though this encryption seems to be weak: https://palant.de/2018/03/13/can-chrome-sync-or-firefox-sync...
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