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Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban (arstechnica.com)

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Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If I remember right on that one, users had even paid to have their data removed, too. But it was stored unencrypted. And that settlement included unidentified users which the money was going to be held onto for them to put ads in magazines or something. Wild.

The huge, nearly billion dollar Facebook settlement was something like $50/person. Google's privacy class action suit was like $10 per person.

And boy oh boy can we be sure they learned their lesson! Facebook and Google haven't done anything shady with private information since, right?