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They say your transaction history with Google Pay won't be used in other Google services. How much you trust that is up to you.

by ra7 6y ago

mediumdeviation 6y ago
They said the same thing about DoubleClick and YouTube. The amount of trust you should give to Google's words is zero.
- emmelaich 6y ago
  Did they though? Do you have a link for us?
thesuperbigfrog 6y ago
It is too tempting for Google to pass up. It is only change in "terms of service" away after enough people are using it. The Google Rewards app is always wanting a photo of receipts when I pay with a credit card. Why would this be any different, especially when they would have access to the data so easily?
aeortiz 6y ago
not at the beginning, but they reserve the right to change their TOS anytime.
- d1zzy 6y ago
  And you will know when that happens and then you can stop using the service.
  - ceejayoz 6y ago
    Or, we can refuse to play Charlie Brown + Lucy with the football entirely.
  - paulryanrogers 6y ago
    True yet just today I got a notice of terms changing effective ... Today, November 18th. So one might only have hours to react before implicitly agreeing by failing to opt out or cancel. Perhaps even less of the change in terms is effective immediately.
  - throwaway2048 6y ago
    But yet they will still have all your data
tagawa 6y ago
I seem to remember them saying the same thing after the Nest acquisition in 2014 (“Nest data will stay with Nest”) but that didn’t last long. https://archive.is/Aue14 https://archive.is/Aue14
Romanulus 6y ago
Hence the hard pass. It's not like they are providing it for free and need to make money somehow. "Do the right thing."
gerash 6y ago
Unpopular opinion here: I do want an entity I trust at a given time (eg. Google, Apple, some credit union, etc.) to mine the raw data they have on my account and do something useful with it as long as neither the raw data nor the derived one is shared with other third parties. My idea of something useful here isn't ads per se but currently I see ads for Google Fi in Gmail even though I'm a subscriber. That's pretty dumb

They say your transaction history with Google Pay won't be used in other Google services. How much you trust that is up to you.

by ra7 6y ago

They say your transaction history with Google Pay won't be used in other Google services. How much you trust that is up to you.

mediumdeviation 6y ago

They said the same thing about DoubleClick and YouTube. The amount of trust you should give to Google's words is zero.

emmelaich 6y ago
Did they though? Do you have a link for us?

thesuperbigfrog 6y ago

It is too tempting for Google to pass up. It is only change in "terms of service" away after enough people are using it. The Google Rewards app is always wanting a photo of receipts when I pay with a credit card. Why would this be any different, especially when they would have access to the data so easily?

aeortiz 6y ago

not at the beginning, but they reserve the right to change their TOS anytime.

d1zzy 6y ago
And you will know when that happens and then you can stop using the service.
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  Or, we can refuse to play Charlie Brown + Lucy with the football entirely.
- paulryanrogers 6y ago
  True yet just today I got a notice of terms changing effective ... Today, November 18th. So one might only have hours to react before implicitly agreeing by failing to opt out or cancel. Perhaps even less of the change in terms is effective immediately.
- throwaway2048 6y ago
  But yet they will still have all your data

tagawa 6y ago

I seem to remember them saying the same thing after the Nest acquisition in 2014 (“Nest data will stay with Nest”) but that didn’t last long. https://archive.is/Aue14 https://archive.is/Aue14

Romanulus 6y ago

Hence the hard pass. It's not like they are providing it for free and need to make money somehow. "Do the right thing."

gerash 6y ago

Unpopular opinion here: I do want an entity I trust at a given time (eg. Google, Apple, some credit union, etc.) to mine the raw data they have on my account and do something useful with it as long as neither the raw data nor the derived one is shared with other third parties. My idea of something useful here isn't ads per se but currently I see ads for Google Fi in Gmail even though I'm a subscriber. That's pretty dumb