Google has excellent security. They employ the best security experts. And yet, when you use their services, you have absolutely no privacy.
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Everything you do when you use Google’s services is tracked, stored, and analysed by Google, Inc.
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All that information is kept very safe from anyone else because, like any other business, Google has an interest in keeping its assets safe.
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How about privacy without security? Now that’s harder, but possible, through obscurity. (This is not something I recommend.) An example:
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If you go out into the middle of nowhere and build a cabin, you will have privacy, even if you don’t have locks on the door (or even a door)
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(But that only works until someone discovers your cabin.)
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Pragmatically, then, we can say that lack of security can negatively impact your privacy but excellent security doesn’t imply privacy.
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To bring it all back: so why don’t some security/infosec folks care about your privacy? It’s because they’re working in security.
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there's another element to this, which is the question of privacy *from whom*. For example, if you are a policitical dissident …
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… then you might not care if Google reads your email as long as they keep it secret from your government.
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We know that (a) doesn’t always happen (Google must comply with legal orders) and (b) is naïve to assume of any multinational
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