> Your first link explains how Google doesn't actually give your data to anyone else. Nobody said Google "gives data away", the article explains how Google mon

> Your first link explains how Google doesn't actually give your data to anyone else. Nobody said Google "gives data away", the article explains how Google monetizes the data. > Access Approvals allows a cloud customer to prevent Google from accessing their data without approval from the company All Access Approval does is prevent individual Google employees from accessing the data, which is not the same as "Google as a whole". It also seems to have a long list of Google services were it does not apply as no AT logs are created or other exceptions apply. And while that might be nice, it's neither special, nor does it change the nature of Google's business, it's just virtue signaling and building plausible deniability along the lines of "We really do care about privacy! At least in as so far as we don't want to get regulated!" You know, just like claiming how Google "doesn't give data away", when in reality it very much sells all the useful insights, said data gives, to the highest bidder.