Subj : Re: Community
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 07:41:09

On 04 Oct 2022 at 11:38a, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar>   Re: Re: Community
 Ar>   By: tenser to Spectre on Tue Oct 04 2022 09:12 am
 Ar> 
 Ar>  > If you go to your Google account, you can download everything
 Ar>  > they know about you and all of your data that they're holding
 Ar>  > onto via the "Takeout" service (or whatever they're calling it
 Ar>  > these days).  I can say that user data is encrypted at rest
 Ar>  > and that if you delete it, it is fully purged from Google's
 Ar>  > servers (including backups) in something like 30 days.
 Ar>  > 
 Ar> 
 Ar> Let me open the tin-foil hat store.
 Ar> 
 Ar> You may download everything they are willing to confess they have about
 Ar> you via that
 Ar> method. You have to  trust they are not generating more information
 Ar> about you via
 Ar> interpolation.

Well, perhaps things have changed since I left, but
access to user data and use thereof was incredibly
strictly controlled, audited, and logged.  Generally,
what Google is telling people about what they do with
your data and data about you is what they're doing.
At least, that was the case when I worked there (I
left for a startup about a year and a half ago).  Oh,
and if someone violated user access rules?  First off,
that was very difficult because the data is encrypted
at rest (e.g., on storage) but if you somehow figured
out how to access it, you were looking at being fired
for cause immediately, if not a referral for a criminal
complaint.  Google does not mess around when it comes
to user data.

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