I did, or at least I thought I did. This is the article that loaded for me.
Along with the Pixel phones, watches and earbuds at Google’s annual showcase of software and devices last week came a pair of nifty-looking translation glasses. Put them on and real-time “subtitles” appear on the lenses as you watch a person speaking in a different language. Very cool. But the glasses aren’t commercially available. It’s also unlikely they will make anywhere near as much money as advertising does for Google’s parent, Alphabet Inc. Of the company’s $68 billion in total revenue from the quarter ending March 31, 2022, about $54 billion came from advertising.
The scope of our own, oblivious involvement in that business is also incomparable with any other time in history.
Does the article identify what “transmits” means? Is that just Google recording its users’ location/data to its own servers? I don’t think I’ve seen anything where Google is readily sharing their users data (excluding legal/regulatory requests or when granted explicit permission by the user), but instead gives customers the ability to select segmented audiences identified by Google so Google can serve them ads.
Regardless, neither are private but if Google is directly sharing user data (without explicit permission by the user, like using Google for 3rd party auth) then this would be the first time I’ve heard of this and its a much larger invasion/breach of privacy.
I did, or at least I thought I did. This is the article that loaded for me.
Does the article identify what “transmits” means? Is that just Google recording its users’ location/data to its own servers? I don’t think I’ve seen anything where Google is readily sharing their users data (excluding legal/regulatory requests or when granted explicit permission by the user), but instead gives customers the ability to select segmented audiences identified by Google so Google can serve them ads.
Regardless, neither are private but if Google is directly sharing user data (without explicit permission by the user, like using Google for 3rd party auth) then this would be the first time I’ve heard of this and its a much larger invasion/breach of privacy.