Subj : Re: Community
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Oct 06 2022 00:17:33

 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.
 Ar> 

I know for a fact that Facebook makes shadow profiles of people who don't even have accounts.  Google would have more data and metadata than they would let on.  They would only show you data that directly relates to you, perhaps data you directly generated, but there would be other data which they could argue isn't strictly based on your activity, that is nevertheless still about you.

American Big Tech is pathological in its behaviour, and the USA has very shoddy business ethics.  They tolerate crap that others wouldn't.

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