Like, maybe not tracking your every movement, search, interest, thought, fear, and desire to turn you into clicks for money?
Or hey, maybe give you total control of the information they collect on you?
Nah, let’s turn the LED on and tout our commitment to privacy!
What's wrong with "My Activity"? It gives you access to all data stored in your account and lets you delete all or pieces of it.
I've been discussing/arguing recently about whether being able to prove you've deleted the encryption keys for PII that you have on on long term backups/archives is something we'd want to explain to a judge or jury while the opposing counsel keeps saying "But they didn't delete the data! Show me when they deleted the data!"
> I've been discussing/arguing recently about whether being able to prove you've deleted the encryption keys for PII that you have on on long term backups/archives is something we'd want to explain to a judge or jury while the opposing counsel keeps saying "But they didn't delete the data! Show me when they deleted the data!"
What would an implementation of that look like? Would it rely on hardware keys or something? Because otherwise, even if you can prove you deleted a key (which seems very hard to prove a negative), how can you prove that no copy of the key exists? The same questions can be had for plain unencrypted data deletion as well.
While I may be more confident if I was under GDPR, I'm not and I fear the same safeguards will not be in place.
Similiar to how laws prevent your own country from spying on you but getting another country to spy on your own citizens is not.
This seems a rather complex thing to do when the cheaper solution would be to just not bother. I don’t trust google but I do expect companies to be lazy and avoid doing heaps of work for no financial benefit.
The benefit that google obtains from our data is in using it to train their ML tech. So after it has been milked for its statistical value as personised data it doesn’t have much worth.