Being forced to follow local laws in the countries where you do business is one thing. Who is forcing Google to buy copies of everyone's credit card transactio

Being forced to follow local laws in the countries where you do business is one thing. Who is forcing Google to buy copies of everyone's credit card transaction data so they can expand the surveillance of their users in their offline life? >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. https://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-...