It's as if a world of people have chosen to ignore how Google makes billions of dollars a year.
Choosing Google rather than Zoom for privacy's sake doesn't address these concerns.
Nothing is free, especially when Google is providing the service. You are the product.
How are you the product with Google Meet? I can speculate, based on how it monetizes information in its other products. Google is processing all of the conversations through its deep learning systems, harvesting insights about everything discussed.
This heightens privacy concerns 100x from whatever Zoom was attempting.
Where are the activist blog posts about this? They don't exist because Google surveillance has been normalized. It's ok if Google does it.
Google and FB could charge for this in the future, but for now they have to go with the free option. Nobody will switch from Zoom to their offers if it costs the same amount of money.
I honestly have no idea. I think it's scary! I wrote this comment on this thread and it got flagged/removed:
"Remember, you are the product here. Free means they are working with the US government and the NSA, and this is straight up Orwellian surveillance capitalism. It’s a black box with backdoors which not even Google employees could be aware of. The NSA uses dragnet practices.[1] Don’t believe me? (Re)watch both Snowden and CitizenFour.
[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/06/nsa-tapped-internet-servers/"
Nothing is free, especially when Google is providing the service. You are the product.
How are you the product with Google Meet? I can speculate, based on how it monetizes information in its other products. Google is processing all of the conversations through its deep learning systems, harvesting insights about everything discussed.
This heightens privacy concerns 100x from whatever Zoom was attempting.
Where are the activist blog posts about this? They don't exist because Google surveillance has been normalized. It's ok if Google does it.