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0 points300bps6y ago0 comments

So basically, Google seems to have managed to take a feature in its own Calendar App, and the default behaviour of meetings on Google and dressed it up like stalking.

A window on your friend’s house can be used to peek in to see if they’re home when you’ve popped by to visit.

It can also be used to stare into all day to monitor what someone you don’t know is doing.

What the terminated employees are accused of doing is a lot more like the second example.

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ethbro6y ago· 1 in thread

Also, in this example, Google would be the company paying users to set up cameras fixated on their windows, watching 24/7, for purposes of serving more relevant flyers in their mailboxes.

antpol6y ago

Yes, and users voluntarily agree for said “big brother watching you” dystopia to get free mailbox, maps app and free photos backups

Nobody signed up for their coworkers monitoring your calendar and then you find you beign doxed externally. Company investigated, gave out warnings, and yet the hostile behavior continued and here is the result

lonelappde6y ago

Windows don't have privacy switches (blinds don't count, for obvious reason), and co-workers aren't "someone you don't know", and calendars are business planes not personal activities or personal bodies.

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