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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:07AM (#19308448)
> Google had their own version of the Facebook's opt-in but highly-invasive research app, but only for people who were over 18 (at least as of the past couple years).

This equivocation is a little ridiculous imho. Google's app was literally a tracking app by its very claim, there was no sense of deception or bait-and-switch.

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:09AM (#19310564)
Same with Facebook's app. I legitimately think the outrage over this was overblown (and I said as much at the time [1]), but I can see the other side of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by piva00 on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:21AM (#19311049)
Onavo didn't disclose that and then FB Research went targeting teenagers.

Doesn't that feel like it deserved more backlash?

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:17PM (#19312716)
We agree! That's why I brought up the comparison in my original post.
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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by j16sdiz on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:22AM (#19310662)
Not at their first try with onavo.
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