That would open them up to costly litigation, especially under GDPR. Not saying "companies never break the law", just that doing it this explicitly is a much higher risk profile to them. That, in turn, makes it less likely they'll do it.
What you say is reasonable. However, in order to prove that, someone would have to analyze the code. SV companies are not exactly the best examples of complying with the law; one of the biggest of them had programmers actively adding code that was designed to confuse municipal officials trying to regulate it, and I'm not sure today's Google is very different. (I want to believe it is.)
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That would open them up to costly litigation, especially under GDPR. Not saying "companies never break the law", just that doing it this explicitly is a much higher risk profile to them. That, in turn, makes it less likely they'll do it.
They are already not compliant with the GDPR.
What you say is reasonable. However, in order to prove that, someone would have to analyze the code. SV companies are not exactly the best examples of complying with the law; one of the biggest of them had programmers actively adding code that was designed to confuse municipal officials trying to regulate it, and I'm not sure today's Google is very different. (I want to believe it is.)