[Nottingham] [Misc] If you'd like to help Google work better for you

[Fay Knight]

Personally I've never regretted 'divorcing' Google several years ago.  

It's also concerning to think of scammers sending out fake emails like
that to correlate people's real-life info with their online accounts.  
    



On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 11:37 +0000, VM via Nottingham wrote:
> That's google's essence - invasion of privacy on the edge of creepy.
> One day they will block your account and unblock it only if you
> provide all this information together with consent to cross-reference 
> it with other data providers that know some part of your life that
> google doesn't.
> 
> On May 20, 2020 12:57:20 AM UTC, Martin via Nottingham <
> nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Is it just me or does this look and sound like a scam?...
> > 
> > How many avail themselves of such 'help'?...
> > 
> > 
> > All make better beneficent Google!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Stay safe folks!
> > Martin
> 
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> "When we take away the right to figure out if something bad is going
> on in our computers, the inevitable consequence is that bad things
> will happen in our computers." (Cory Doctorow)
>