Google Pay £391m Privacy Fine 🙄

So Google have just paid a £391 million privacy fine, and I don't think it's anywhere near enough. So Google have been tracking your location even when you opt out of location tracking services. So let me just warn you here, even when you don't allow your phone and your location to be tracked, Google have still been tracking your location. This is in 40 US states. I think this is absolutely outrageous. It is a violation of your privacy. By the way, when your location is known and your location is either at your home or away from your home, this can cause major privacy and security issues. But Google track your location so it can target you location-specific ads. So let me give you Google's response to this, and then let me give you the misleading consumer's response to this. So, um, in 40 states in the US, Google have been tracking the location of users even though they opted out. A Google official said this: Consistent with improvements we've made in recent years, we have settled this investigation. I.e., they've paid $391 million in a fine which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago. Hmm, really? Really? Like, do you really think your phone doesn't track where you are even when you don't want it to? Do you really think your phone doesn't track what you say even when you don't want it to? Now, this is the response from the other side. So, um, the accusation against Google is that it's misleading consumers. And if we are opting out of location targeting and tracking and yet we are being location targeted and tracked, that is not just misleading customers. That is an outrageous violation of your privacy. And to a certain degree, we've got to take responsibility. We gave Facebook, we gave Google all of our data freely so we could use their services for free. So maybe we need to be a lot more careful in the future. So knowing— let me just read you this, this is really important— knowing a user's location helps advertisers target products. Location services help Google generate $200 billion in ad revenue. So they got fined $391 million, yet they generate $200 billion in ad revenue, and location service tracking helps them do that. So that fine was nothing. That's like taking a penny off a millionaire. A tenner off a billionaire is way too low. The consequences are not strong enough for a violation of your privacy. Yet we are explicit and complicit in it. In it. So Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who led the case against Google, said this: For years, Google has prioritized profit over its users' privacy. It has been crafty and deceptive. Consumers thought they had turned off their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers. Yeah, exactly right, Tom. Tom has said that fine was basically just a little thank you tax. Exactly, $391 million out of $200 billion. It's like, yeah, all right, we'll give a little bit of pocket money. Yeah, but we'll probably carry on. So why am I telling you this? Number one, we all have to take responsibility. It's all very well us blaming the government for things we think they're doing wrong— massive inflation, massive taxation, lockdowns, etc. But if we don't properly stand up and speak out and hold them to account, nothing will change. And so I would say we all need to be much more careful with our data sharing. And we need to push back on social media and big tech companies and not give them so much power. So we have been warned. And by the way, one way to do this is to be more decentralized. Like, if you're only on Facebook and you're only using Google and you're employed and you only make money from your employer, you are the opposite of decentralized. You are controlled. 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Is $391 million enough of a fine out of a $200 billion a year ad revenue from Google? Zenon has said that's like me paying 39 pence. Is it really going to deter them? Do they just see it as a little bit of a tax? It's like a millionaire who parks illegally because they don't care about the parking fine because the parking fine is basically the parking ticket. They're not going to change their behavior because it's not enough money to them. And maybe that's the same with Google here. To me, it's a pretty heinous data crime when you turn your location service tracking off and they keep location tracking you. That is a massive violation of your privacy and your data, and they've basically got not even a slap on the wrist. Just a tickle in the balls, it's not enough. What do you think? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for tuning in, and remember, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.