Look at Apple. They announced a pretty similar thing to recall but managed to get praised as creative innovators by using the correct combination of buzzwords. Creating a sense of privacy and security though from a technical point of view they offer neither. Google learned that it is not the tech, it is the marketing. MS botched the optics when they were on a downward reputational spiral, Apple nailed the optics banking on their locked in sla…users inside the walled garden. Google just has to figure their own strategy to good optics on the tech.

That’s not why it was made. Data collection is a titanically large industry. Why just collect data from specific programs when you can literally just set up a screen recorder to collect all data?

This is what happens when people are flippant about data collection. First, data collection isn’t even there. Next, it’s there, but is off by default, then it’s on by default but you can opt out, then only certain aspects are opt out, flash forward 10 years and here we are.

This stuff isn’t coming out of nowhere, it’s a slow build because consumers consistently allow more and more egregious privacy violations to slip past because they “don’t care, the big corporations already have the data”

Right???

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