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unfortunately "de-identified" data is typically re-identified quite trivially. so i guess we just hope google keeps its promise, and is competent in its scrubbing.
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Explicitly trying to re-identify data that has been de-identified is typically a fireable offence at FAANG.

Accidentally making a machine learning system that happens to (potentially) do it is a different matter.

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> Google has promised to

This part is worrying.

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Well, it also says that the data was already scrubbed. Arguments have been made that this is insufficient.
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See the last 3 sentences of GP's post
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I have a bridge to sell you.
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