• lud@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    beyond a measily small percentage of their annual revenue

    If you are referring to the GDPR you should know that the penalty is actually really high. And it’s not like they can’t continue issuing fines if they don’t stop.

    Also you have to keep the PR impact in mind. Proved tracking of keyboard input like that would be very concerning for even the people that say “I have nothing to hide”.

    Google also doesn’t need to track that when they know everything else about our life’s.

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      7 months ago

      Actually no, my statement “until recently” was referring to GDPR. I think GDPR is amazing and I’m glad we have it even if I’m an American.

      The rest of your statement is fairly factual. The only point I could consider is someone would have to prove the keyboard is tracking us which unless someone at Google wants to whistleblower isn’t the easiest task. Whistleblowers have their own issues to content with.

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        7 months ago

        Then what were you referring to when you said fines based on annual revenue?

        I can’t recall any law that fines based on that except the GDPR and similar EU laws but for non privacy related stuff.