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You mean just like your bank, your retail store, your ISP, your news outlet, your car dealership, your ... Google is no different and isn't doing anything new
by sureaboutthis 9y ago
You mean just like your bank, your retail store, your ISP, your news outlet, your car dealership, your ...
Google is no different and isn't doing anything new that hasn't been done for decades; even hundreds of years.
- amelius 9y agoI would have a problem with it if my bank, retail store, ISP, news outlet and car dealership were all the same company. The scale and connectivity of the data is the problem here. It's now possible to draw conclusions from the combination of datasets.
- sureaboutthis 9y agoDo not think that the scale and connectivity is different. All those businesses sell your information and extract your information, too. In many, possibly most, cases, they know more about you than Google does.
- amelius 9y agoBut in many countries that kind of sharing is not allowed without an "opt-in".