I would – not for me but for an older, tech-noob person – like to set up Google Calendar for the sole purpose of syncing his mobile phone with his Thunderbird/Lightning.
Since I have never used (most of) Google's personalized apps myself, I want to make sure to lock down all privacy setting of Google calendar. (btw. are there any encryption settings?)
Is there anything special I need to check — what about the concern that "Google will read my calendar"?
Best Answer
This is 2017 - and the default Google calendar app will read your data, even if you use webdav sync with a non-google calendar. Try creating some simply named events and then go to 'schedule' view - you will suddenly find decorative graphics reflecting the semantic content of your event. No idea how to change that, so I moved away from Google calendar app and denied it access to my device calendar (not sure if that is effective).
In contrast to the other answer, I think it is very valuable for Google to know what you are doing, where you are doing and whom you are doing it with in order to have more info about you - amongst other things to customize advertising.