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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What sort of data does Google collect from Google Calender, Keep, Photos, Drive? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Since it's mostly free, there has to be a catch. I may be wrong, but since it's Google, there's always a catch nowadays.

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[–] coughrelief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This argument doesn't really work, unfortunately. This is a corporation we are talking about (one that is trusted by the majority of normies as well), not a random person. It's not really equivalent

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 2 points 2 years ago

My perspective is that security breaches of companies are a guaranteed inevitability. What information we give them will end up in the hands of someone we don't want to have access to it.