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Google Fiber is taking over and people will choose it over their regular ISPs because it's better. And soon enough it won't matter what OS your mobile device is running. For as long as you're connecting via Google Fiber, Google has your data.

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I was a user of Google WiFi in Mountain View, and indeed the terms of service (which no one reads) allowed Google to collect information by watching what you did on the Internet. No PII, of course, but we all know that metadata is enough to identify people.

I solved this problem with a VPN, just like you need with AT&T or Comcast.

No they don't. Maybe you were confused by "We may record information about your usage of Google WiFi, such as when and for how long you use the network and the frequency and size of data transfers"?

https://wifi.google.com/privacy_and_security.html

I have no idea if the current document was the one I read last decade. At the time, I was alarmed enough to use a VPN.

(edit: archive.org says this page dates way back to 2012. Presumably it used to be elsewhere...)

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