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Why isn't google open with the data it collects? Surely that would be an easy step towards "organizing the worlds information and making it universally accessible".


I know, it's almost as if they lied about their mission statement and it's really "maximize shareholder profit."

This is really disturbing my worldview.

You don't think other huge corporations might have mission statements that are really marketing tools aimed at disguising their profit motive and disregard for users?

No! it's unthinkable. We must be missing something!


Haaaaaaaahahahaha! The Internet sure makes me laugh more than any human being. Screw those guys called friends.


User privacy?


They wouldn't collect the information at all if they cared about privacy.


I don't believe that's true. If you anonymize the data it can be extremely useful information across a wide variety of areas.


But google doesn't anonymize the data.


because they want to make $$




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