Yeah, exactly. If that happened to Google, they would lose value in a way that Facebook wouldn't. That's why I trust Google.
I'm sure millions of others at least implicitly share my opinion. And, I'd argue, the more explicit this opinion becomes, the more real the value and the greater the risk to Google for being a poor data steward.
There is nothing Alphabet could do to lose money. Nothing.
They have already completely screwed people many times over. Deleting all of their drive data and locking them out of 10 year old accounts for false alarms on some “bad content” or something.
One does not simply sue a company like this. It is larger and more wealthy than a nation state and unaccountable to all.
The Butlerian Jihad seems more plausible every year.
Aside: Cambridge Analytica was a scandal of interoperability. People gave CA access which it then abused to collect data about others. In the kind of highly interoperable world that is being proposed here, this is not something that you could prevent.
