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Lauren Weinstein Dec 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.

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PoeticLicenseDK Dec 11, 2022

@lauren
What's to stop Google from going all Twitter on us?

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Andreas K

@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren Basically, despite that Google is an evil surveillance company, they are basically set up to be GDPR-compliant by default.

If they use the data for whatever purpose, they usually do it by purpose, not because somebody happened to stumble into some database lying around, and decided to use the data,

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Andreas K Dec 11, 2022

@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren Please don't take that as meaning that they are nice, but the work to run a company in secure manner, and running it in a GDPR compliant manner, funny now that you mention it, does have some relevant overlap.

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PoeticLicenseDK Dec 11, 2022

@yacc143 @lauren
At least Google demonstrates technical competence.

As for the other site, it's as if someone intentionally set off a social media #DirtyBird bomb to blow up the most commonly used platform for democratic discourse.

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Andreas K Dec 11, 2022

@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren Well, it was a well known fact that Twitter has no technical competence managing its data.

(Hint: Twitter has the harshest privacy related FTC consent decree in the tech sector, AFAIK.)

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Andreas K Dec 11, 2022

@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren And it's proof again that consumers never are interested in technical soundness of products.

A recurring nightmare to my engineering half. Windows 3.11 again.

Customer buy into obviously technically unsound solutions, let manufacturers sell them “premium solutions” that actually have only (or mostly) disadvantages for the user, and so on, …

Sometimes one feels obligated to become a culture pessimist.

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PoeticLicenseDK Dec 11, 2022

@yacc143 @lauren
Elon is a chaos agent; technical soundness does not matter, because he has no standard for operating a social media company, he's just making it up as he goes. For automobiles, OTOH, nobody wants to drive a car with poor handling, no power, & that breaks down.