[kwlug-disc] Google requiring users to log into android phones. Plan to track users across all google products

[Russell McOrmond]

  You always needed to log into your google phone in order for basic
features to work, including the app store.   It was always a bit of a
fake "pretend we aren't already logged in" when going to sites with
the browser.

  Android lacks multi-user functionality, something they should
embrace -- including having a 'guest' account like they do with their
ChromeOS.  I have a number of google accounts, and there are times I'd
like to loan my device to someone else -- as it is I wouldn't feel
comfortable doing that.

  I think this policy change will improve privacy given more people
will recognise that these mobile devices (iOS/Android, phone/tablets)
are personal devices which can't really be shared/loaned/etc.   Where
things are an even sillier problem is Google/Apple TV which is
household/family and shouldn't be manufactured as "personal".


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Darryl O'Neill <ldoneill at golden.net> wrote:
> Article suggests that you must login to use your google phone.  Did they get
> that correct?
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_story.html
>
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