Here is a strawman, because I want to challenge the other parallel universe.<p>Let&#x27;s say this whole pledge thing didn&#x27;t exist and the only thing that GAFE promise is no ads. Now let&#x27;s supposed Google is collecting and anonymizing usage data, like most sofwares do, is that a big deal? Since 99% of the people won&#x27;t read the ToS and most people assume some level of usage data will be collected, what would be people&#x27;s stand on that?<p>I think, Google&#x27;s stand on the current issue is that they disagree their intent violate the pledge. They would argue data collection is anonymized, and like most software out there (Chrome, FireFox, etc) these are telemetry (and all sorts) collected. For Google the collection is for regular development purpose. Perhaps they will argue that they did not do a good job at making a &quot;disable me&quot; option, and that they didn&#x27;t make that clear to their customers. I supposed EFF just doesn&#x27;t trust Google handling the data in the first place, since Google can lie about not logging the individual user name in some server&#x27;s log file.