Google Launches Incognito Mode For Google Maps; Privacy-Focused Features For YouTube and Google Assistant (zdnet.com) 21
Google has announced today new privacy-centered updates for three of its services -- namely Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Assistant. From a report: More specifically, Google Maps will be getting an incognito mode, YouTube is getting a history auto-delete option, and Google Assistant is getting support for voice commands that will help users manage the Assistant's own privacy settings. In addition, Google also launched a new Password Checkup feature that checks users' passwords if they've been leaked at other online services. Google first announced incognito mode for Google Maps earlier this year in May, at its Google I/O developer conference. The Google Maps incognito mode is modeled after the similarly named feature that's found in all modern browsers and has been present in Chrome since its launch, back in 2008. It allows Google Maps users to search and view locations without having this information added to their Google account history.
[...] The company said YouTube will get a feature called "history auto-delete." Google is also rolling out new privacy features to its voice assistant -- Google Assistant. These updates come after last week the company rolled out changes to its privacy policy on how Google Assistant handles voice recordings in response to concerns related to third-party contractors listening in on users' voice recordings. But in the coming weeks, Google users will be able to query the Google Assistant itself about these privacy settings.
[...] The company said YouTube will get a feature called "history auto-delete." Google is also rolling out new privacy features to its voice assistant -- Google Assistant. These updates come after last week the company rolled out changes to its privacy policy on how Google Assistant handles voice recordings in response to concerns related to third-party contractors listening in on users' voice recordings. But in the coming weeks, Google users will be able to query the Google Assistant itself about these privacy settings.
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I guess this means they will not "share" the info with their customers. Instead, they'll keep it to themselves to push their own stuff.
Or maybe they'll just test the placebo effect of turning on their "privacy" features...
Seriously, I am using private windows in FF and even there, they manage to track me between FB, Google and Youtube.
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I guess this means they will not "share" the info with their customers.
Google never shares user data with customers (by whom I assume you mean advertisers). Google uses it on their behalf to do targeting but doesn't give it or sell it; that would be handing over the golden egg.
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Lol. If you pay enough, they will share.
Cite?
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Like it makes one bit of shit difference whether or not those privacy invasive fucks share it, they are as evil and manipulative as all fuck. Once those fucks at Google have, who gives a fuck who else has, the most manipulative deceitful and disingenuous already has it, the one you can trust least. Seriously Adolf Hitler, Stalin and Mao would all have to be around for Google to sell data too, that would make it worse than Google, those privacy invasive and politically manipulative cunts from having. I had a
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1.) They are required to share whatever they have with something like 17 US intel agencies
Only if a judge agrees that the agency has good reason. This is the law.
It is all a matter of how much you pay until Google will cough up what they collected
Cite?
Humor: using "google" and "privacy" (Score:3)
all solved then (Score:1)
glad that's out of the way.
Ok Google (Score:2)
- Ok Google, stop spying on me
- Sure thing!
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There are no innocents... (Score:1)
It's nice to see Alphabet has heard of this thing called privacy even if they don't believe in it.
Surely there is someone out there that believes they are not getting special attention from AI when using things like this?
If google actually cared about privacy... (Score:3)
If Google cared about privacy, it would not require you to log in with a Google account to do useful things with maps and instead would simply save information on your device.
Home and work, recent searches, favourites, etc.
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If Google cared about privacy, it would not require you to log in with a Google account to do useful things with maps and instead would simply save information on your device.
Home and work, recent searches, favourites, etc.
Google does save all that information to your device. In fact, they copy it to all of your devices on which maps is installed. If you want map data, though, you have to cache that from each device separately.
I currently have no cellular service. I cached maps yesterday and I was able to search for and navigate to destinations while I was out today. So you do need a Google account, but Maps works fine offline if you use a little foresight.
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