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It's curious that there hasn't been any backlash against non-tech companies for this stuff. E.g. something like airmiles, where your entire purchase history is

by tensor 8y ago

It's curious that there hasn't been any backlash against non-tech companies for this stuff. E.g. something like airmiles, where your entire purchase history is sent to advertisers. No one gets up in arms, despite how sensitive that data is. That's not to say people shouldn't be concerned with their privacy, but it's a weird double standard.

Krasnol 8y ago
That's probably because it's not so obvious so many just don't know about it.
sdrothrock 8y ago
There was for a while; the most prominent story I can remember is a Target point card figuring out a woman was pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
ganeshkrishnan 8y ago
The problem is that if airlines ever takes away your airmiles points because your bought a leonardo di caprio fake poster from aliexpress I wouldn't miss them at all. I would just delete their email and move on. The issue with Google is that they can ban you from all their services for "trying to act oversmart". I know startups that had their whole gmail/drive/docs suspended and everything purged because one of their dev had a banned account. My colleague had his google account banned because he resold the pixel (http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/google-pixel-ban/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/google-pixel-ban/) I had one account banned because they did not allow paypal after they launched google wallet. And they banned a second account for being "related to first account" Because google does not have customer support for gmail/drive they run amok with the ban hammer. If you don't mind being suspended for all google accounts for absurd reasons then yes you are right, this is a non-issue.

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It's curious that there hasn't been any backlash against non-tech companies for this stuff. E.g. something like airmiles, where your entire purchase history is

by tensor 8y ago

Krasnol 8y ago
That's probably because it's not so obvious so many just don't know about it.
sdrothrock 8y ago
There was for a while; the most prominent story I can remember is a Target point card figuring out a woman was pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
ganeshkrishnan 8y ago
The problem is that if airlines ever takes away your airmiles points because your bought a leonardo di caprio fake poster from aliexpress I wouldn't miss them at all. I would just delete their email and move on. The issue with Google is that they can ban you from all their services for "trying to act oversmart". I know startups that had their whole gmail/drive/docs suspended and everything purged because one of their dev had a banned account. My colleague had his google account banned because he resold the pixel (http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/google-pixel-ban/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/google-pixel-ban/) I had one account banned because they did not allow paypal after they launched google wallet. And they banned a second account for being "related to first account" Because google does not have customer support for gmail/drive they run amok with the ban hammer. If you don't mind being suspended for all google accounts for absurd reasons then yes you are right, this is a non-issue.