> If it is trivial, makes good business sense, enhances the value of the profile and makes more money then you can bet dollars to donuts that unless there are s

> If it is trivial, makes good business sense, enhances the value of the profile and makes more money then you can bet dollars to donuts that unless there are strong statements to the contrary from the company involved that they do not engage in such behavior that they do. Even strong statements don't help, as seen in the Google Apps for Education case where filings in federal court admitting scanning of GAE emails by Google were at odds with public statements denying it. It's an interesting read as it shows the confusing mess of privacy statements versus actual practice, and how hard it is even to figure out which privacy statement applies, as Google started claiming that the consumer privacy statement applied to free student email as well, but it wasn't clear earlier. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht... Google finally stopped the practice, and it seems they were scanning even Google Apps for Business emails to build profiles to show ads on other sites even if the show ads setting was off. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/marketplacek12/2014/04/google_abandons_scanning_of_student_email_accounts.html http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/marketplacek12/2014/04/google...