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Demonaut

(8,919 posts) Mon Nov 12, 2018, 11:41 PM Nov 2018

Is Google a trustworthy company? aside it's amazing artwork as a header

should we trust them?

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Is Google a trustworthy company? aside it's amazing artwork as a header (Original Post) Demonaut Nov 2018 OP

what do you need to trust them for? htuttle Nov 2018 #1

but the personal data collection is significant Demonaut Nov 2018 #2

htuttle

(23,738 posts)

1. what do you need to trust them for?

Reply to Demonaut (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2018, 11:57 PM

Nov 2018

Perhaps a person's relationship to a corporation shouldn't be about 'absolute trust', but what can you trust it to do?

I trust Google to provide a decent search engine financed by advertising sales, since that's what their main business model is.

Demonaut

(8,919 posts)

2. but the personal data collection is significant

Reply to htuttle (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 13, 2018, 12:01 AM

Nov 2018

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