Re:Ask HN: Why are so many people afraid that Google, FB, IG...
by rvz on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:19AM
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Do you know what Facebook and Google use your personal sensitive data for? Do you trust them to keep this data secure and private?
If you can't even answer the first question, don't even bother attempting to answer the second. Every-time you use Sign in with Facebook or Google, they add another datapoint from one service to your profile on their systems. Tons of users use this sign up method and Google and Facebook know what you signed up to.
Combined with their billions in cash, insurmountable data-points, users and data, they can create products that are extremely personalised and trick us into giving away more sensitive data, with their highly user-friendly (and rigorously tested) interface. It will now take just ONE username on any service and include the linked profiles and that is it.
They are now coming after your health records. Do you want them to know about that? The line should have been drawn years ago.
If you can't even answer the first question, don't even bother attempting to answer the second. Every-time you use Sign in with Facebook or Google, they add another datapoint from one service to your profile on their systems. Tons of users use this sign up method and Google and Facebook know what you signed up to.
Combined with their billions in cash, insurmountable data-points, users and data, they can create products that are extremely personalised and trick us into giving away more sensitive data, with their highly user-friendly (and rigorously tested) interface. It will now take just ONE username on any service and include the linked profiles and that is it.
They are now coming after your health records. Do you want them to know about that? The line should have been drawn years ago.