https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
If you didn't yet know, Google is datamining GMail etc for purchase confirmation emails amongst other things and aggregating it for their own purposes in an extremely detailed way.
(Everything you purchased with order ids, detailed billing details, VAT, including subscriptions etc)
Do not believe a single word about how this information is kept private. There is zero reason to build a system to aggregate this and then not use it to make money out of.
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@szbalint I tend to agree, as long as it isnt explicitly stated in an EULA that they wont do this then most likely they will do it.
I was just hoping for something a bit more concrete like a EULA excerpt or something.
@freemo well an EULA can be easily sidestepped aswell.
Facebook did this, they leaked data "by proxy", meaning that they made partnership agreements, then allowed api access to data and relied on the good will / promises of any third party to limit data vacuuming.
@ondra @freemo no, I’m merely observing that for any feature they implement that has large storage, processing and dev requirements, someone has to pay for it.
If it is not done directly then it is done indirectly, in ways you might not like.
Google didn’t strike agreements to obtain 70%+ of in-store purchase data for free and without purpose.
@freemo something in between.
It follows from the business model and there is hard evidence about wider data sharing - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/
The business model is itself shifting, in the beginning it was ads (and this is where most people still think we are), but then it became more like gatekeepers to data or for the ability to influence.
Data collection isn't cheap, once collected, corporations try to find ways to sell it. Facebook and Google are "pioneers" in this area.