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Privacy Scare! Google's Go Programming Language Wants to Enable Telemetry by Default

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2023

Google and privacy concerns, a match made in heaven?

Well, I do not intend to make any false claims here. But Google does not have the best reputation regarding privacy protections.

It may not be bad for everyone, but they're not good at it either.

In 2019, Google's Go (open-source programming language) latest release introduced a change where GOPROXY defaults to a mirror operated by Google and is subject to Google's privacy policy.

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