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You are giving too much credit to Google and Apple, I think...

I have seen how Google and Apple do things and I have seen how government do things. I would any day trust my data to something made by Google or Apple than something made or managed by the government. Yeah yeah sure the government is 'accountable' but the accountability barn door is pointless when the privacy horse has long fled, as is much likely to happen with the government's cavalier approach and practices.

Look we get the anti-big-tech angst but when it starts ignoring on-ground facts it just sounds like angry rambling.

You are forgetting that the government already has your data.

You already use you most confidential data to pay taxes and divulge all income sources. So you want to give that data to private entities as well?

God.

but Google and Apple have all that information already and the big pipe to the government is still open... just stop ignoring facts?

All the more reason to not give that data to the government, right, if they don't already have it?

Why would you recommend to use company "A" just because it doesn't need to have data "D" to provide feature "X" if it has access to data "D" through other means anyways and they share it anyways with the other entity Government "G" that you are so much against using secret laws...

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