Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic...
by varispeed on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:30AM
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If it is "hard" to let user download their data, then they shouldn't be in this business in the first place. It's like they want their cake and eat it too.
> very expensive EU fine when someone with power in the EU gets impacted by this...
Given how EU works, more likely scenario is money under the table after a period of sabre waving.
Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic...
by IshKebab on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:37AM
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Neither of those sound like remotely difficult problems. And honestly the first point sounds like an imaginary problem.
1. When banning people, include a field saying whether or not they should be allowed to access Takeout.
2. Include a one-time authentication token for Takeout in the ban email.
I'm sure it would require some work to implement but so what?
* Some account bans are for illegal content - Child porn, bans so an account state can be investigated, copyright claims etc. In that case, letting a user download their data could violate the law/ethics.
* Technically implementing this in Googles infrastructure is hard. The login session used by takeout has to have access to all data (so that takeout itself can get your data from each service and build an archive). Stopping you taking that same cookie and using it to access services directly isn't part of their auth model.
Despite all this, I think they should try harder, both for the users, but also to save a potentially very expensive EU fine when someone with power in the EU gets impacted by this...