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Comment by dzader | Hacker News Reader

Curious what data you have to suggest Google will (or has) broken this assurance ever?

Apart from the several times they've been fined in the EU and various other countries for (summarising here) slurping data, lying about deleting it, favoring their own services, and so on?

From a very quick online search:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/30/google_slurp_ok/

* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/eu-google-fine...

* https://variety.com/2019/data/global/google-fined-57-million...

Of course, such fines (etc) are subject to potential change over time because lawyers. But they're definitely not a bastion of good actions and credibility. :(

Does that matter? That data will be around forever (longer than Google). Do you trust every person (and lawyer) Google will ever hire from here on out, and every company who will purchase that data once Google is gone?

Actually Google anonymizes the data and deletes it after analysis (I have no idea if they do but since we're just making things up with no basis in fact my guess is just as valid if not more valid than yours)

A guess that Google will delete data is just as valid as a guess that they will keep it? Or more valid?

If you'd rather deal with evidence and reason than with guesses, I can understand that. But dude...c'mon.

More valid - heres something that might surprise you all - my 20 year old anonymized data is as worthless to google as it is to me - so yes I don't care if someone gets a hold of it after google no longer exists

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