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Google does not use corporate customer's data for any type of commercial use, it's only used for the customer's own use. As such, they do not have "enormous tr
by halflings 9y ago
Google does not use corporate customer's data for any type of commercial use, it's only used for the customer's own use.
As such, they do not have "enormous troves of trojan horse data" as they are not allowed (by their own terms) to use it for anything unrelated to the company itself.
- endorphone 9y agoI said nothing about corporate customers. I'm talking about individual accounts, and individual devices. Google knows where I go, who I talk to, how long I'm at places, how long I spend in the office, and on, and on, and on. And at an aggregate, they know how busy every shop is, the types of people that visit, etc. They're quite forthright about this. Through personal accounts -- which Google quite openly mines -- Google has an astronomical amount of data about every business. Google knows more about worker habits than employers. They know more about your city than your municipality. Etc. Etc.
- eitally 9y agoIt is in violation of Google's core principles and policies, and will never happen. Ever googler understands, and has it hammered into their brains repeatedly, that the worst thing the company could do is breach user trust by exposing or trading on user/customer data.
- biztos 9y agoPerhaps, but I think it would be entirely within Google's principles to show me employment ads if some combination of my gmail and search usage indicated I might be looking for a new job. Do the principles and policies you know of have some kind of ethics angle, or is it just about the (quite real) risk of bad PR that could harm the magic cookies driving the ad business?
- ruleabidinguser 9y agoIs it maybe bad for the economy at large that they keep all this to themselves and do not generate the corresponding profits?