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Google doesn't even use Gmail data to target ads. It strains credulity to believe they'd use medical data to do so, even assuming that is legal.
by asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
Google doesn't even use Gmail data to target ads. It strains credulity to believe they'd use medical data to do so, even assuming that is legal.
- EForEndeavour 6y ago> Google doesn't even use Gmail data to target ads ...Anymore. They did exactly this from basically launch up to 2017, and they only stopped because it was scaring corporate customers away from buying GSuite. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-advertising-targeting-privacy-cloud-business https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoYes, although as the article says, gmail was the exception rather than the rule in that most other products did not use customer documents and data to personalize ads. In any case, that was three years ago, and it hardly seems likely that Google will go back to that practice given the increasingly sensitive views of the public toward the use of customer data. It is not my claim that Google would never have used Fitbit data in this way if it had acquired them in the past, only that it seems unlikely that they will on a forward-looking basis.
- wolco2 6y agoThey just stopped in 2017. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/tech...
- nr2x 6y agoIt is legal.