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After 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
by GeekyBear 8y ago
After 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-...