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Google Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits Your Data Without 'Selling' It
- Spivak 7y agoI’m sure the EFF know what they’re doing but I feel like this just creates more confusion from a marketing standpoint. The EFFs messaging could be something short and sweet like “selling insights is selling data” and letting people know that an ad agency telling Google “show this ad to people who just got home from work” isn’t any less creepy than Google just giving the ad agency people’s schedules.
- solipsism 7y agoletting people know that an ad agency telling Google “show this ad to people who just got home from work” isn’t any less creepy than Google just giving the ad agency people’s schedules. Maybe you mean, "explaining to people why..." You can't "let people know" an opinion. I don't say this to be pedantic. We need to realize that the public doesn't always feel the same way about things as we do. I agree with informing people, but I don't agree with telling them how to feel about things.
- kyboren 7y agoI think there's a much simpler and more powerful way to describe the relationship: Google are digital pimps. You're not paying for any services because you're getting tricked out and your pimp is raking in dough from the Johns.
- harry8 7y agoGPL software. Google's end run around the licensee for the software they needed to exist was to distribute access to the software not the software itself and so keep their changes closed. All take. Throw some crumbs. Maybe. If they feel it's on their interests. GPL worries? Ha! They don't sell your data they sell access to their analysis of it. There's a symmetry there in what they're doing there. Don't be evil.