Ryan Whitwam
Role at the time: Ars Technica reporter offering his own analysis
Condemned
Statement summary
Whitwam warns that sharing more data across Google services increases privacy risk.
“The more data you share across Google’s ecosystem, the greater the risk to your privacy.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertisingGoogle response and Whitwam's following assessment
Whitwam criticizes the consequences of sharing content through Personal Intelligence. Google says connecting apps is opt-in and ads will not be based directly on an inbox or photo library.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case concerns the advertising exception. Whitwam criticizes the privacy consequences of enabling the connections.