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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Why Microsoft, Google, and others screw up
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Why Microsoft, Google, and others screw up
Part of the reason -- and a big part -- of why you see public
relations disasters like Microsoft Recall and Google AI Overviews is
that these firms typically refuse to have employees on these teams who
bring skill sets that include real world experiences that go beyond
the technical.
It should have been obvious to execs at Microsoft and Google (and
other firms) that trying to ram projects like these (and others, like
poorly designed passkey implementations) down consumers' throats would
trigger major blowback and embarrassment. But either they just
couldn't see the forest for the trees, or simply ignored the warning
signs, treating the user community like a giant fungible planet of
guinea pigs.
Either way, it's bad for them, and it's very, very bad for us. -L
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