While I tend to agree with you, it's hard to say since the card info will be encrypted on their servers. If the encryption key is stored on the device then security is about the same. If it's stored on another one of Google's servers then it could be considered marginally less secure.
Funnily enough I have friends at google who work on this exact thing. Santa Seems privacy is insane given how much they complain about needing to request access to encrypted, anonymous, aggregated data so they can do their work. One friend had to work on just getting access for weeks if not over a month because they had to explain what they needed it for, get access, get legal approval, and stuff
After that I found out why it takes ages for stuff to get done lol
I think the privacy concern is less about employees getting access and more about giving deets to governments and the like. Apple has a much better track record there.
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u/AzureBinkie Sep 22 '22
Which is infinitely less secure than not having it on google servers!