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It's probably safe to assume Google reads all your emails and can probably target advertising off it one way or another. We can probably thank GDPR for forcing
by kenhwang 8y ago
It's probably safe to assume Google reads all your emails and can probably target advertising off it one way or another. We can probably thank GDPR for forcing companies to disclose what they know about you.
- nomel 8y agoNo assumption needed, it's right in the terms of use. I'm surprised to see how surprised people are about this. The fact that they scrape email, for targeted ads and features has been known since 2004.
- halflings 8y agoSee my post in parent, this is nowhere in the terms of service.
- TrickyRick 8y agoAnd yet, in this case, it's probably enough for Google to disclose that they have your email, since the rest is data gathered from that which you don't really need to disclose under GDPR
- RL_Quine 8y agoThere's something to be said about intent there. The distinction between "we are a dumb store for images" and "we process all of your images, extract facial recognition data, and match them to landmarks" is stark, but usually undefined. In general I'd argue that "you agreed to this" in regards to a TOS is utter nonsense, as they always contain language and descriptions of a product in such a way that nobody can really understand what's going on. I'd have to spend weeks per year reading the TOS I'd implicitly agreed to, supposedly.
- halflings 8y agoFrom June 2017: "Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html