Sorry I only created the account to post that, so I am creating a new one: Source is me, kind of :) - check the news of that time about Google CEO visit some m

Sorry I only created the account to post that, so I am creating a new one: Source is me, kind of :) - check the news of that time about Google CEO visit some months after Snowden revealings. The Google rhetoric slowed down after that. Very likely, some kind of deal was made to pay for the "anonymized" data. Someone else is now confirming that obvious suspicion. The "anonymized" data are for sale if you are the right customer and the government is another right customer. For the data to have value, not have much noise, it should be easy to de-anonymize those. All the dark UI / settings patterns from the industry and government laws to verify age, etc, point to one common goal, to make it easy to massively collect quality clean data, to co-use. I have no motivation to make an essay for you with references on this, but hope you get the idea. E.g.: The government can find your phone number and can find / buy the internet traffic from that, as well as things you typed in applications, location, etc - all kind of "anonymized" but grouped. If all these are collected (by separate parties) and obtained (all by one party), then it is easy to correlate and get clean non-anonymized data. A global played with lots of budget can do that.