If you told me this was a failed attempt at obvious sarcasm now, I'd totally still believe you.
I have a friend who works for the government and laments at how much red tape there is to acquire or link any dataset and wishes for more data acquisition.
To be fair, her use cases were sincerely benign - being able to target people who qualify for more welfare/govt assistance, and being able to make the govt website more helpful/discoverable for support.
Though she definitely subscribes to her data being used for helpful purposes from bigtech
But...it would also greatly increase the damage any hacker could do.
Same applies to Google. It’s super convenient to have everything “on Google”. Until the day Google is exposed/hacked/turns evil. Then it’s a disaster.
Hoping the above won’t happen is not a strategy but a gamble.
You mean this hasn't already happened?
Life's a gamble. Crossing the road on your way to work is gamble. Heck it's a gamble that you won't be taken out in the next 12 months by an insidious disease.
The bet I have placed personally is that Google is better at looking after my personal data that I am - so for example I use gmail instead of my own email server.
I think you'll find a lot of smart tech people do, but don't post on HN because it disagrees with the prevalent view so you just get downvoted, or called an astroturfer.
