[liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

[Anthony Papillion]

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On 05/08/2014 08:23 PM, Doug Schuler wrote:
> 
> Realistically we need to develop an entire suite of publicly owned
> tools. Could the development and implementation be massively
> distributed?
> 
> Or is it over?   We lost all the other media....
> 
> "In just a few short years, starting in 1998, this company has
> grown to employ almost 50,000 people worldwide, generated sixty
> billion dollars in revenue last year, and has a current market
> capitalization of more than 350 billion dollars. Google is not only
> the biggest search engine in the world, but along with Youtube (the
> second biggest search engine in the world) it also has the largest
> video platform, with Chrome the biggest browser, with Gmail the
> most widely used e-mail provider, and with Android the biggest
> operating system for mobile devices."     From:  An open letter to
> Eric Schmidt: Why we fear Google


I fear we've already lost. I used to think that it would just take
some sort of major scandal to wake people up to the fact that
relinquishing their privacy wasn't such a good idea. Then, I thought,
they'd stand up in outrage and take their privacy back with
pitchforks. Then Snowden showed up and nothing really happened. Most
people didn't actually change the things they do because, well, it's
not convenient.

I see a future where the world, not just the digital world, is divided
into two camps: those who are technically literate and willing to take
the sometimes inconvenient steps to protect their privacy and those
who aren't.  The first group will be in the minority but will enjoy
privacy and anonymity while the second group will be pretty much at
the mercy of whoever can figure out how to access their data.

Anthony

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