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> In Orwellian terms, it’s a beautiful thing for Google, the destruction of words like “sell” and “personal.”" Disagree with the claim here. Certainly, Google
by einpoklum 5y ago
> In Orwellian terms, it’s a beautiful thing for Google, the destruction of words like “sell” and “personal.”"
Disagree with the claim here. Certainly, Google is utilizing your personal information against you, but:
1. That's certainly not selling your personal info.
2. To make this argument, US states must concede that active commercial advertising has an aspect of harm and manipulation. I doubt any of them are actually willing to go ahead and adopt that position consistently.
Having said that... when we read Google's claim that
> it will “never sell your personal information to anyone”
let's also not forget that it's quite willing to give it for free to the US government, in bulk and forever.
- ehnto 5y agoTechnically not sharing your user data, I would suggest that in practical terms it is selling the use of your personal data. It's a nuance that may not matter in the publics eyes, which I frankly agree with. So if we may agree that it is exploitive but not technically illegal, then I think we can reason that we are the edge of what is right to do and it's time to consider how to make the exploitive thing illegal.
- waterloosong 5y agoThe writer of the doc sports a quill of unbearable lightness: it is very much an Orwellian thing, to stretch selling something to include using the knowledge of that thing in marketing something else.