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Show them the consequeces. You might scare a few people who are already anxious by showing data collected, but most people will be apathetic. Illustrate why its bad. Be systemic about it.
The stunt outlined elsewhere of texting someone with their info is good, but "we all know google isn't going to threaten us" is the prevailing attitude. Demonstrate what google is going to do and how it hurts people individualy and directly. Until there are personal consequences, peopae won't really care.
Coming from an outsider, could you give an example of a way Google attacks people individually and directly?
Preferably something more common than traffic accidents, since people drive cars regardless
Google scans all the photos you upload or send to other users, multiple times they have accused people of uploading CSAM and completely nuked their accounts simply because they were sending something to their pediatrician or their doctor.
In one case they have reported them to the police who then obtained a search warrant for all the (obscene amount of) data that google has collected on them.
They then disabled and deleted all his google related accounts including his phone number (he used google fi)
Louis rossman has a video on those incidents on youtube.
Google could have potentially and very easily destroyed this persons life. With them you are guilty until proven innocent, actually your always guilty. This mark guy sent the police report that exonerated him to google, yet they still think he's a pedo....