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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by maaaats on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:30PM (#18963339)
> Do you remember that typical user visits Google web site NOT to setup his privacy settings, but with a totally different goal (such as do web search)?

EXACTLY! Why should the user then have to give up their privacy? All they wanted to do was a simple search, not be tracked and profiled. So it's the unneeded collecting of personal data that's the problem here, not the ux.

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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by randysavage on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:44PM (#18964717)
Being tracked and profiled is the cost of using google to do a simple search. No free lunch and all that.
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