Lauren WeinsteinDec 11, 2022

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

Show threadSpacewizard! (Ed H)Dec 11, 2022

@lauren That's good to know, thanks.

(So we're safe with Google till the wrong billionaire buys them...)

Show threadLauren Weinstein
@spacewizard The stock is organized in a way that makes it extremely unlikely that a hostile takeover would succeed. The founders were quite prescient.
Dec 11, 2022 at 7:39pmWeb
Show threadSpacewizard! (Ed H)Dec 11, 2022

@lauren I feel a little better about slightly relaxing my longstanding "avoid giving Google any information" policy, and allowing it to keep track of youtube vids I've watched and using Google Maps while logged in sometimes.

I still tell them not to store my search history though, and my frontline search is DuckDuckGo