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Richie Khoo<p>I'm sure everrything will be just fine. <br>Right guys?</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases</span></a></p><p>All code is open, but some code is more open than others.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Foreshadowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foreshadowing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DoNoEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNoEvil</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Enshitifcation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitifcation</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WordOfTheYear2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordOfTheYear2024</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
Musta dawned on me thusly<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rwg</span></a></span> for me: I don’t want to be <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/googled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googled</span></a> again, where they start with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/donoevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donoevil</span></a>, wind you into a myriad of useful but interconnected apps that you come to rely on, go public, become beholding to shareholders, reduce functionality, charge for things they promised would be free forever, have zero support, reenforce <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/echochambers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>echochambers</span></a>, (I could list problems all day) and no easy way to get out. </p><p>Never again.</p>
Michael Rowe<p>So, here's a strange thing... I use apple mail and I've noticed that my Gmail account keeps copies of all the mail from my mac.com account in the GMail archive. What the heck?!?! I didn't give Google permission to do anything with my mail from other accounts. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/donoevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donoevil</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>'s call-scanning <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> could dial up <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> by default, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> experts warn<br>This is essentially <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/clientsidescanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clientsidescanning</span></a> <br><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/goog</span><span class="invisible">les-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/</span></a></p><p>Right now <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DoNoEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNoEvil</span></a> (kidding) Google is going after <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scam</span></a> calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?</p><p>What happens when they come to find the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dissidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissidents</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> rights leaders?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SlipperySlope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlipperySlope</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a></p>
Alan Rycroft 🇨🇦<p>Google just fired 28 employees who protested its contract with Israel</p><p>After the employees held sit-ins at Google offices in New York City and California, nine were arrested, and 28 were fired</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywall</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/google-fired-nimbus-israel-palestine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/technology/</span><span class="invisible">2024/04/18/google-fired-nimbus-israel-palestine</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DoNoEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNoEvil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arrest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> $GOOG</p>