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Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by gvjddbnvdrbv on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:05AM (#22032442)
Do you have a link to this story?
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by londons_explore on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:28AM (#22032780)
Google's main problem here is they can't tell their side of the story.

If only they had some process where a customer could agree to have Google publicly explain why an account was banned, I think we'd see many more explanations along the lines of "This customer was using Google cloud to launch Ddos attacks" or "This customer sent bomb threats to the president".

Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by manigandham on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:36AM (#22032811)
How is that a problem? What's stopping them? Google can easily write blog posts or release post mortems or have the dozens of PMs that visit HN talk about it.

Considering these links are all about people with valid businesses and apps, I doubt your examples apply for violations.

Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by pjc50 on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:01AM (#22033420)
What law do you think is preventing them from doing that already? Especially where US residents with no general privacy law are concerned?

The only thing that's preventing Google from telling their side of the story is their own refusal to engage human-to-human with individual customers.

Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by londons_explore on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:23AM (#22033803)
Both the law and Googles privacy policy stops them telling the world if you sent bomb threats to the president. That's still your private mail. They can't go looking it it, let alone telling the world about it.
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by pjc50 on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:52AM (#22033969)
> the law

Which law?

> That's still your private mail. They can't go looking it it,

They definitely subject it to all kinds of automated scanning for spam and potentially abuse. The nearest thing to a public statement from Google on the subject seems to be: “very specific cases where you ask us to and give consent, or where we need to for security purposes, such as investigating a bug or abuse”

i.e. there may be abuse cases where they read your mail without asking.

Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by asah on Monday January 13, 2020 @12:31PM (#22036534)
Downvote - Google could reply here on HN, which is one of (if not THE) top developer site in the world.
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ... by codegladiator on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#22033081)
> more explanations along the lines of

I am willing to bet there would be zero explanations along those lines.