When the folks who are screeching about this start organizing protests outside google's offices I'll start taking their claims of concern about user privacy seriously.
Fair enough. I still believe it's wise to be skeptical of government overreach, and call me old fashioned, but I believe that government's ability to hurt us with unchecked abuses of power exceeds that of any corporate giant.
Weird take given it was private industry that engineered the global digital panopticon we all live in today same as private industry has intentionally stifled progress on climate change and caused the now planetary PFAS contamination.
