A growing chorus of voices in the tech industry are exhorting us to get used to Google's violations of users' privacy and preferences.
Google is kicking off 2014 with some good old-fashioned privacy infringement. The search giant's recent decision to link Gmail addresses to Google+ was met with considerable backlash among users who don't want their inboxes exposed to spam. But according to former Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment on his blog, we really shouldn't be surprised at all: