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Comment by heurifk | Hacker News Reader

I'm ok with Google having this data. I'm not ok with governments having it.

Why? At least with government you have theoretical recourse at the polls. With a megacorp you can’t do shit if you don’t like what they’re up to.

Right, you can't do shit... except not turn on location history, which as this page says, is off by default.

In this case the government wouldn't have that information either.

Governments can just ask for it and Google has to give it to them. [1][2] In fact the US Government has decided it is easier to have the service providers collect data for them and then just get it when needed instead of them separately trying to "archive" data.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

Why? Google has enough power to fuck with your life and no oversight whatsoever.

Google doesn’t have armies or overzealous attorney generals (and lackeys) willing to ruin lives for their stupid conviction rate. I wouldn’t have believed police officers lie on a ticket if it hadn’t happened to me.

No, instead they have armies of overzealous AI bots making decisions without any human oversight.

That's far more scary to me, but you know, you do you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7AONv3FSg

I'm not ok with Google or anyone having this data as I can't realistically or easily opt out or remove my data.

Google appears to be best-of-industry in making the data they have about you both extractable and deletable.

Let's just say I'm the polar opposite.

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