For applications in educational institutions, we find it undesirable that the ownership and responsibility for this data lies with Google. As a result, educational institutions using Google G Suite have little to no control over what happens with their data, creating a potential risk for the future. For example, if this metadata is being used to place personalised advertising.
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We assume Google will make changes so the identified risks will be removed and education institutions can continue to use G Suite for Education safely.
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Undesirable, but let's continue.
Übersicherheit.
Are you convinced by this explanation? Because I’m not. If this is all about slow websites, why not calculate the page load times locally and transmit only the slow ones? This still wouldn’t be great for privacy but an order of magnitude better than what Xiaomi actually implemented. Xiaomi really needs to try harder if we are to assume incompetence rather than malice here. How was it decided that sending all visited addresses is a good compromise? Was privacy even considered in that decision? Would they still make the same decision today? And if not, how did they adapt their processes to reflect this?
Almost Secure: Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are… (2020-05-04)
Off by one.
Happy 29th everyone!
Editor's Notes.
[end note 1] Editor's Note. I acknowledge the promptitude of the authors of the summary. Especially their promptitude to renegociate deadlines.
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[end note 8] Editor's Note. I wish to express my true gratitude to the authors of the summary for not exceeding three times the expected length of a typical summary.
Maybe most of them.
Men are (made) weird.