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The whole "Google is not selling your data" excuse never held up to practical reality, it was always only a semantics argument along the lines of "They sell it,
by freeflight 4y ago
The whole "Google is not selling your data" excuse never held up to practical reality, it was always only a semantics argument along the lines of "They sell it, but not directly!".
This whole case exemplifies that very much, but it only garners attention due to who did it, Russia, not due to why and how this is actually possible.
- theptip 4y agoI think it’s materially different though. Particularly when you contrast with the FB graph API and the Cambridge Analytica scandal where they were actually giving out the raw data. There is a LOT more you can do with the raw data than with ads targeted on specific categories. Like, I personally am never going to click the cat ad in the example above, but I very well could have had all my info leaked by a neighbor in my friend graph in the CA dump. So your ad-harvested data will always be sparse.