Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
I'm a Googler.<p>The way you decide whether to trust someone or something is whether someone you already trust trust them. So the question is: who do you trust and how far does your chain of trust go?<p>For me, I need to trust my coworkers. And I do. And I trust that those coworkers will report misbehavior internally such that I can see it.<p>And from what I know, I trust them to look after my data. They have everything: search history, location history, email, photos of my daughter. I am not a product. I am a leaf on a human-indecipherable neural net that shows me a particular ad.<p>Companies don't care about people. Companies aren't people. People care about people. I do not think Google The Company "wants" anything in any way you can moralize good or bad. Google The People want to do right by users.<p>So, the question is, do you trust me? :)