I know I'm alone in this, but i trust Google with my data more than the government, more than my family and more than myself. If they don't handle it well, they lose billions of dollars of value.
On the other hand, I don't trust Facebook worth sh##. I would love to have an decentralized alternative (blog culture & the FOAF dream was nice while it lasted)
if your individual data was leaked? Um, you'd open a support case and likely get some bottled response... before then needing to go a media outlet or trying to gain some traction on social media... even then the impact would be minimal. Maybe if you are a famous person or the data leak occurred en-mass itd be a different story? Id be curious if this sort of thing has happened.
Yeah, exactly. If that happened to Google, they would lose value in a way that Facebook wouldn't. That's why I trust Google.
I'm sure millions of others at least implicitly share my opinion. And, I'd argue, the more explicit this opinion becomes, the more real the value and the greater the risk to Google for being a poor data steward.
There is nothing Alphabet could do to lose money. Nothing.
They have already completely screwed people many times over. Deleting all of their drive data and locking them out of 10 year old accounts for false alarms on some “bad content” or something.
One does not simply sue a company like this. It is larger and more wealthy than a nation state and unaccountable to all.
The Butlerian Jihad seems more plausible every year.
Aside: Cambridge Analytica was a scandal of interoperability. People gave CA access which it then abused to collect data about others. In the kind of highly interoperable world that is being proposed here, this is not something that you could prevent.
On the other hand, I don't trust Facebook worth sh##. I would love to have an decentralized alternative (blog culture & the FOAF dream was nice while it lasted)