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  Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-10-11 22:50 +0200
    Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-10-13 09:47 -0400
      Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-10-13 10:07 -0400
        Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-10-13 10:46 -0400
          Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-10-13 11:29 -0400
            Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-10-13 11:58 -0400
        Re: Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2018-10-13 15:00 -0400

#51191 — Scumbag Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of 
users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to 
disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears 
that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause 
reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident 
and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

<https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-
repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194>

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#51260

On 2018-10-11 4:50 p.m., Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of
> users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to
> disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears
> that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause
> reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident
> and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
> 
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-
> repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194>

Luckily for everyone, nobody actually used Google+.

Rot in Hell, Google+

-- 
SilverSlimer

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#51265

"SilverSlimer" <silver@slim.er> wrote

| Luckily for everyone, nobody actually used Google+.
|

  I wondered about that. You buy an Android phone,
you get a gmail account, whether you want it or
not. Do you also get Google+? If someone hacks
gmail, isn't your private info still vulnerable, even
if you didn't know you had a gmail account? What
Google's been doing is essentially spreading your
private data around to vulnerable, public-facing
storage when they should have just kept it in their
private business records.

  Even now, as I read it, G+ won't be gone for
another 10 months. So anyone who's been trusting
Google in any capacity might want to check
their account security. 

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#51268

On 2018-10-13 10:07 a.m., Mayayana wrote:
> "SilverSlimer" <silver@slim.er> wrote
> 
> | Luckily for everyone, nobody actually used Google+.
> |
> 
>    I wondered about that. You buy an Android phone,
> you get a gmail account, whether you want it or
> not. Do you also get Google+?

The software is installed and they push you toward using it if you play 
a game downloaded from the Play Store. However, that's as far as it goes 
from what I can tell.

> If someone hacks
> gmail, isn't your private info still vulnerable, even
> if you didn't know you had a gmail account? What
> Google's been doing is essentially spreading your
> private data around to vulnerable, public-facing
> storage when they should have just kept it in their
> private business records.
> 
>    Even now, as I read it, G+ won't be gone for
> another 10 months. So anyone who's been trusting
> Google in any capacity might want to check
> their account security.

Agreed. I'd go farther and say that people need to stop trusting 
corporations in general. No cloud service, no free e-mail service are 
worthy of our personal data. If you're not paying for the account, you 
shouldn't be using it.

-- 
SilverSlimer

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#51272

On 2018-10-13 10:46, SilverSlimer wrote:
[...]
> Agreed. I'd go farther and say that people need to stop trusting 
> corporations in general. No cloud service, no free e-mail service are 
> worthy of our personal data. If you're not paying for the account, you 
> shouldn't be using it.

Says the guy who worships Trump, who has been busy ensuring that 
corporations get more power and control than ever before.

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
Complexity is not a condition to be tamed, but a lesson to be learned. 
(James Bridley, 2018)

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#51274

On 2018-10-13 11:29 a.m., Wolf K wrote:
> On 2018-10-13 10:46, SilverSlimer wrote:
> [...]
>> Agreed. I'd go farther and say that people need to stop trusting 
>> corporations in general. No cloud service, no free e-mail service are 
>> worthy of our personal data. If you're not paying for the account, you 
>> shouldn't be using it.
> 
> Says the guy who worships Trump, who has been busy ensuring that 
> corporations get more power and control than ever before.

You mean corporations like Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google who have 
been using the power _Obama_ gave them to censor anyone and anything 
that broadcasts a message other than the leftist one? 
<https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/facebooks_mid_term_purge_of_conservative_pages_well_underway.html>

What about the power _Obama_ gave them to do Communist China's bidding? 
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475087/vertical-it/apple-firewall-app-ban-does-the-bidding-of-china-s-authoritarian-rulers.html> 
(from 2013) or 
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/18/google-china-dragonfly-search-engine>

Keep lying, old man. I have the facts, you have the emotions.

-- 
SilverSlimer

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#51280

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:07:32 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
>
> "SilverSlimer" <silver@slim.er> wrote
>
> | Luckily for everyone, nobody actually used Google+.
> |
>
>   I wondered about that. You buy an Android phone,
> you get a gmail account, whether you want it or
> not. Do you also get Google+?

Plus all the bells and whistles like their cloud Office.

You can decide to not use Google Play Store and install a third party
app-store instead.
-- 
Andreas

My random thoughts and comments
https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

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