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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by riverbender on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:22PM (#19810907)
It would surprise me if Google didn't have those accounts linked anyway, thus undermining your policy.

A Google employee once called me on my personal cell phone when I was a few minutes late to a business meeting. I still don't see how that could've happened unless they'd linked my work (g-suite) account with my personal (gmail) account, and then allowed their employees to access personal data in a totally inappropriate fashion.

Maybe there's some other explanation, but I can't fathom what it would have been.

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:32PM (#19811026)
There's probably some other explanation. I wasn't under the impression Google employees can just go read your data like this. And if you want to believe imagine they can -- it'd be dumb of them to do it in this fashion. If you didn't leave your number on your emails/website/resumes/Facebook/etc. or given it out previously then maybe the employee got it from someone else who had your number.
Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by riverbender on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:03PM (#19843859)
Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine.
Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:14PM (#19843951)
> Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine.

I in fact do have evidence to believe it's more correct than yours but I have no inclination to discuss it further.

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by riverbender on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:30PM (#19844087)
You claim that you have secret proof which you refuse to share, but that sounds more like a troll or a bullshitter than somebody with actual evidence. I wonder why.
Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:36PM (#19844144)
> You claim that you have secret proof

Evidence. Not proof. And it's not secret. Just not something I'm inclined to share here.

> which you refuse to share, but that sounds more like a troll or a bullshitter than somebody with actual evidence. I wonder why.

Because of (1) my privacy and (2) the fact that you're attacking me like this. You're welcome to see me as a troll if you'd prefer that.

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by riverbender on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:43PM (#19844222)
What's the _nature_ of this evidence that you claim to have?

I have phone calls and e-mails to a personal g-mail account that make literally no sense to receive _unless_ Google had linked my personal and business accounts in a CRM someplace; an d then given access to personal contact info to some of their staff.

> the fact that you're attacking me like this

How is this an attack? I've done nothing to you that you didn't do to me. Except in my case I revealed the nature of my evidence whereas you revealed literally nothing. You just came up with a dumb and obviously false hypothesis and declared it true.

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:46PM (#19844249)
> I've done nothing to you that you didn't do to me.

You're saying I called you a troll?

(This discussion is over from my end.)

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by detaro on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:44PM (#19844230)
You wrote a bunch of fairly rude words in a post you then deleted...
Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by tylerl on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:47PM (#19815080)
Employees don't have any more access to your information than anyone else.
Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by JoshTriplett on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:43PM (#19811148)
The point isn't to avoid any connection between the accounts. The point is to ensure that my primary account can leave those histories turned off.