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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by tedivm on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:56AM (#30177525)
Whenever Google does something awful a product manager comes in here and tries to justify it. We get that there's business reasons why you'd do this, but it's still deeply unethical.

The fact that we can't disable this feature for our workspace is also pretty messed up. Yes disabling the feature could remove some functionality- but that's a choice the users should make.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by jcranberry on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:12AM (#30177767)
It seems like you can disable it, it'll just be a different button.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by tedivm on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:27AM (#30177976)
> - The ability of Google Workspace organizations to turn off “Web & App Activity” for all users will be removed.

You can't disable it on a workspace level, each user has to do it individually now.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by jcranberry on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:25PM (#30183513)
That kind of makes sense. I think the idea is that similar to how your admin doesn't have the ability to control your color scheme or accessibility settings, it's more of a personal usage feature rather than organizational one.
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