> Streams is a Deepmind product, moving to Google Health.
So now it's a Google product. And when they said [data] "will never be linked or associated with Google accounts, products or services", that was a lie. Seems very straightforward to me.
> If Google Health was part of Alphabet but not Google, would you argue it was "plainly not a Google product"?
It has Google in the name. I don't understand this claim. It's a Google product. From the official blog post that Streams released yesterday[0]:
"We’re excited to announce that the team behind Streams—our mobile app that supports doctors and nurses to deliver faster, better care to patients—will be joining Google."
They're not joining Alphabet; they're joining Google. I mean, I guess linking to Google is technically different than literally being consumed by Google?
"It has Google in the name. I don't understand this claim."
Just because something has Google in the name does not mean it is part of the same legal entity as the rest of Google.
This is already the case in various situations.
Your view seems to be "branding" is what makes it a Google product, and that seems wrong. Branding has no effect on anything material at all.
If Google called it "Alphabet Chrome" but it reported into the Google entity, would it suddenly remove privacy concerns around chrome? As I asked, and you never answered, would you suddenly no longer call it a Google product?
What really matters is what entities it is part of and what walls/agreements/etc exist between the entities, etc.
Okay, but: "We’re excited to announce that the team behind Streams—our mobile app that supports doctors and nurses to deliver faster, better care to patients—will be joining Google."
They're joining Google. Representatives from DeepMind have said that they're joining Google[0]. Every source I can find says that they're joining Google. You're talking about a hypothetical that doesn't exist.
If Streams was joining Alphabet instead of Google, that would probably change things a bit. If they announced they were joining Mozilla instead of Google, that would change things even more. But based on all of the information we have now from both Google and Streams, neither of those things are happening.
Is your position that the blog post that Streams itself used to announce this about their own acquisition is wrong?
It's not like it was an existing Google product that the data is being moved to.
If Google Health was part of Alphabet but not Google, would you argue it was "plainly not a Google product"?
Or is that still a Google product?
(FWIW: I actually expect the article gets it wrong and that Google Health will be/is a separate LLC under Alphabet but not Google)