Google Data Privacy

Comments express skepticism about Google's data collection practices, privacy protections, and business model centered on harvesting user data for advertising while questioning trust in the company.

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Sample Comments

glogla Jan 14, 2020 View on HN

Google is not protecting its users privacy, it is protecting their own business. They want everyone's ads to be worse than Google's, so you use Google. Hiding private data from everyone but themselves is part of the plan.

Aeolun Oct 6, 2016 View on HN

Google wouldn't be Google without all that personal data though.

steve19 Jun 8, 2013 View on HN

Nobody said they have access to Google servers. We are worried about what data google to sending them (by whatever means).

josephlord Jun 7, 2013 View on HN

Can you prove that Google doesn't gather that data for themselves?

okoni Dec 12, 2011 View on HN

Google's services and google data collection are two sides of the same coin. Make it possible to have google services without the data collection part would expose the actual data collection taking place and worse users could start asking to be disconnected from the data collection since it's now possible.

RubyPinch Nov 8, 2016 View on HN

who knows what google might do with google's information.

mort96 May 2, 2025 View on HN

Google is pretty good at not letting other people see your information. They're not good at preventing themselves from using that information.

chipperyman573 Sep 24, 2015 View on HN

Google hasn't exactly been known to put users' privacy in front of gaining more information about them, though...

urbandw311er Nov 7, 2021 View on HN

They want to prevent Google selling all their data?

FirmwareBurner Oct 26, 2023 View on HN

More disregard for privacy than Google the ad company lol?