Its google, it will use analytics to fingerprint the users browser. Therefore it can most likely uniquely identify the person. I don’t believe them that they don’t make a copy of data entered. I’m sorry your project is forced to use it but you can tell whoever is in charge of this that there is a growing movement of people who refuse to use google services.

I would do it if it wasn’t hosted on Google.

Person of the year is not a honorific. It just means most important or influential.

Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.