And this will happen again and again, if nothing changes. People need to be aware of stuff like this, but the news pull them in the path to ignorance instead. This is why public awareness is important.
I wonder if all Android phones would connect to the "network" or just Google devices.
> noting that device location data is encrypted and not viewable by the company.
Best case scenario here then is that they are actually telling the truth, and don't have some way to decrypt, or get your location data before encryption.
It would be disappointing if in five years or so an internal leak happens revealing it was a lie all along, or a massive data breach happens and everyone's location history are known.
I like your view.
From my limited knowledge, I speculate that if AI was developed further, and given as much publicly available data across a variety of scholarly topics as reasonably possible, it could potentially use statistics and such to help us find correlations across many different fields that a human would never think of. Whether it would revolutionize analytics or not I don't know as I am not qualified to say, but it's fun to dream of positive change these tools could bring.