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Google Repeats Itself: Give Us Your Data, But We Won’t Tell You How Google Works or Give You Control

Ben Gomes, a Google engineer, blogged lightly about the “experiment” on Tuesday.
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In an 850-plus word post, it’s good to know that Google will spend 22 to tell us that (a) they’re collecting data and (b) they aren’t going to share it with us. That is, they don’t value your privacy — everything you do, they’re watching; and they don’t value transparency — they’re going to keep all that information, all their code, and all their algorithms under lock and key.