Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app

Re:Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app by aylmao on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:36AM (#18451147)

> The team is joining DeepMind/Alphabet, and it appears DeepMind promised that health data would never be joined to your Google account.

Ah, good to hear! Companies always keep their promises after all, especially when it is around user-data sharing and it's all left to good faith instead of a written, actionable contract. /s

Throwback to Facebook and WhatsApp anyone?

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Re:Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app by reaperducer on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:58PM (#18452006)

The PR department is ready to crank out another "We can do better. We'll learn from this" SV non-apology.

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Re:Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app by bagacrap on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:13PM (#18451514)

I really don't see the connection between Facebook and Google. Track record on privacy is totally different between the two. No matter how many times I hear about cambridge analytica, my opinion of google will be unaffected.

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Re:Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app by aylmao on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:14PM (#18452202)

I once heard a Google employee mention this himself, specifically after the Google+ breach coverup came to light: "Honestly, I don't think it was the right thing to do but it definitely was the better business move. And announcing the deprecation today definitely tries to cover it up. We just have a better PR team."

I'm not claiming one is better than the other and that's not a discussion to have today, but I agree with him 100%. Google, after all, invented the business does have a hell of a PR team.

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