Google: hypocrisy. All about the customer!

A few days ago, Google once again announced in a press release its concerns about the right to oblivion.

According to Google's announcement:

"European citizens have the right to request the removal of personal information from search results in cases where it is out of date or untrue. From the beginning, we have publicly expressed our concerns about the decision, yet we have worked hard to comply with it, and we have done so conscientiously and in cooperation with the Data Protection Authorities. To date, we have handled deletion requests for more than 2 million search results in Europe, removing more than 800.000 of them. In addition, we have taken great care not to delete results of public interest, as defined by the European Court of Justice. Most Data Protection Authorities have concluded that this approach ensures the right balance. "Google

It is known that the company collects all the information that circulates on the internet, something that has put it many times in the sights of personal data protection groups and activists. But what about the right to be forgotten? Is the announcement of the company that seems to be worried about the side effects of the new measure, another pre-trial trick, we wondered in the November 16 post.

So yesterday several news sites reported that Google is actively collecting location by Android users even when location services have been disabled on .

Σύμφωνα με μια δημοσίευση της Quartz από τις αρχές του 2017, οι συσκευές με λειτουργικό σύστημα Android συλλέγουν διευθύνσεις κοντινών των towers and send the data back to Google. The most worrying part is that this happens even when location services are turned off.

Following the publication, Mountain View pledged to take immediate action to prevent the above behavior, and promised that the issue would be fully remedied by the end of November.

"Τον Ιανουάριο του τρέχοντος έτους, ξεκινήσαμε να εξετάζουμε τους κώδικες των Cell ID για να βελτιώσουμε περαιτέρω την ταχύτητα και την απόδοση της παράδοσης μηνυμάτων", ανέφερε ο εκπρόσωπος της Google. "Ωστόσο, ποτέ δεν ενσωματώσαμε το Cell ID στο σύστημα συγχρονισμού του δικτύου μας, και έτσι τα δεδομένα διεγράφησαν άμεσα".

So we notice that although Google is concerned and expresses it in press releases about the forced removal of information that is available to everyone through ς δεδομένων της μηχανής αναζήτησης, από την άλλη συλλέγει κρυφά δεδομένα χρησιμοποιώντας και πάλι το κλισέ που την θέλει να το κάνει "για το καλό μας."

This marks the second time in recent months that the company has been arrested for collecting user data under questionable circumstances.

Earlier in October, one thread on Reddit warned χρήστες του Android ότι η Google διαθέτει ένα API αναγνώρισης δραστηριότητας το οποίο επιτρέπει σε εφαρμογές τρίτων να παρακολουθούν τη φυσική σας δραστηριότητα - ακόμη και όταν η συσκευή σας είναι εκτός σύνδεσης.

"Μπορούμε να επιβεβαιώσουμε ότι οι αλγόριθμοι ActivityRecognition λειτουργούν και εκτός σύνδεσης, αλλά δεν γνωρίζουμε αν κάποιο από αυτά τα δεδομένα αποστέλλεται στους διακομιστές της Google (πιθανώς δεν το χρειάζονται, αφού έχουν ήδη πρόσβαση στην γεωγραφική μας θέση και πάλι μέσω των υπηρεσιών Play" αναφέρει ο CTO του SmarterTime Anis Fehri.

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