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Google uses search takedowns to "moderate" users' privately saved links collections, used by some as bookmarks.

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@Grimy@lemmy.world
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They shouldnt be reading and playing with things privately stored. Are they going to go through all my documents to replace any swear words? It’s completely inexcusable. Private doesn’t mean private until some big company asks about it wtf.

@tomich@lemmy.ml
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It’s not on bookmarks. Is on collections(a different thing) that are public, shareable and technically hosted by Google. This whole thing has been overblown by not fact checking.

@Grimy@lemmy.world
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It deleted them from public and private collections.

If google was taking out mentions of Tiananmen Square at China’s request, would you be okay with it?

@seejur@lemmy.world
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If that’s the case (what OP mentioned), I think it’s still the responsibility of who made those effing laws. You cannot ask a corporation to break the law to protect your privacy. But you can definitely ask your representative to protect it

@Grimy@lemmy.world
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It’s not an order from the president, they could easily say no and fight it.

Alex
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This is google we’re talking about, there never was any privacy to begin with, and what you believed was there was always just an illusion. This was always their interpretation of the ideal and power of the internet with its “free sharing of ideas and knowledge” - they literally went with including personal data in that much like facebook and both have yet to be stopped or held accountable to start treating it as such.

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