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So you click a few buttons and trust that they do what you want them to do. Google could just say they delete that data and still keep and sell it, there is no
by aszantu 7y ago
So you click a few buttons and trust that they do what you want them to do. Google could just say they delete that data and still keep and sell it, there is no way of really knowing.
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoGoogle does not sell data.
- soverance 7y agoOh, so they just sell ACCESS to data. Got it.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoI never understood this "they sell our data" argument against Google. They track us all, they profile us in all imaginable ways, but they are guarding these data jealously as it's their most important asset. Selling access to our data is an inaccurate description, they sell profiled ads in a way that you as the buyer never contact the end user directly, Google is always the middleperson.
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- nothrabannosir 7y agoThat would open them up to costly litigation, especially under GDPR. Not saying "companies never break the law", just that doing it this explicitly is a much higher risk profile to them. That, in turn, makes it less likely they'll do it.
- Nextgrid 7y agoThey are already not compliant with the GDPR.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoWhat you say is reasonable. However, in order to prove that, someone would have to analyze the code. SV companies are not exactly the best examples of complying with the law; one of the biggest of them had programmers actively adding code that was designed to confuse municipal officials trying to regulate it, and I'm not sure today's Google is very different. (I want to believe it is.)