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No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This
The company knew about a privacy glitch and kept quiet. That has to stop.
You don’t own us.
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Shares of Google parent company Alphabet Inc. were dipping on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported the company discovered a way for outside companies to potentially tap into Google users’ digital information and decided not to tell the public about it. I have three immediate takeaways:
1) This data privacy glitch is just like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, except it isn’t.