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It is an open secret if you talk to any Google employee that Gmail data is heavily used to enrich other Google services, including ad placement, even if indirec
by lrvick 4y ago
It is an open secret if you talk to any Google employee that Gmail data is heavily used to enrich other Google services, including ad placement, even if indirectly. They also can and will give it to authorities thanks to bulk keyword sharing agreements with or without individual warrants.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-data-on-search-users/?sh=76db409b7c97 https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/googl...
US citizens should take careful note of the fact their data is only usefully constitutionally protected if it is hosted at home.
- sidibe 4y agoGoing to take that first part with a grain of salt since I feel like any "open secrets" at Google end up with many whistleblowers and feature articles
- lrvick 4y agoGoogle is not a charity. They are not giving you gmail without charge without somehow generating profit from your data. You do not need an insider leak to work that much out.
- rattray 4y agoGoogle Workspace makes money from Gmail by charging business users for it. Gmail is the freemium version to make employees demand their employers buy Workspace over Office 365. It's a similar model to GitHub.
- endisneigh 4y agoThat link doesn’t support your claim
- lrvick 4y agoIt is a publicly known example of a blanket keyword search warrant. How is this not relevant? This sort of order could apply to any Google service.
- samcat116 4y agoIts literally in the Google Workspace terms of service they don't do this with workspace data.
- lrvick 4y agoUntil they get a blanket keyword warrant or need more data to train their ad placement AI that they do not use -directly-.