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Their privacy assertions are very ambiguous. Apple can’t see your data, but Goldman Sachs can. Apple says GS won’t use it for marketing, but there are many non-
by abtinf 8y ago
Their privacy assertions are very ambiguous. Apple can’t see your data, but Goldman Sachs can. Apple says GS won’t use it for marketing, but there are many non-marketing commercial uses for the data.
- currymj 8y agothis is true but I am okay with GS having my data and using it for their own nefarious schemes; I am bothered by the idea that it may be shared promiscuously with dozens of data brokers and companies in a personally identifiable form.
- abtinf 8y agoThat’s just it—the way they describe it, they can use it for nefarious schemes, except marketing.
- GeekyBear 8y agoAfter Google announced it is buying most consumer's credit card transaction data, privacy promises are something we should all be looking for. >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-...