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It is not just your location data which is collected and profiled but also your purchase history. The combination of these two is more than enough to make a det
by Yetanfou 8y ago
It is not just your location data which is collected and profiled but also your purchase history. The combination of these two is more than enough to make a detailed profile of who you are (as in 'what your habits are', they already know your name and address etc.) and whether you have anything 'interesting' on the go (visited the hospital, went to the drug store, bought more booze than your health care insurer thinks good for their bottom line, etc.). Payment processors sell this data to the likes of Facebook and Google who use it to make a more detailed profile. If you're fine with this, no problem, just use that bank card/Swish/Apple|Google|Samsung|whatever Pay. If you're not, cash is one of the ways of limiting your exposure to these practices.
- Tijdreiziger 8y ago> Payment processors sell this data to the likes of Facebook and Google Source?
- Yetanfou 8y agohttps://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-your-credit-card-purchases-and-connects-them-to-its-online-profile-of-you/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-... "Of course, Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases."