Re:Welcome to the Google Privacy Policy
by amelius on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:10AM
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* That is inaccurate: Google's ad controls panel says this (after fully disabling targeted advertising): "Ads you see may still be based on your general location (such as city or county) or recent searches"
* Even if advertisers can target audiences in groups of at least 100 people, advertisers can run multiple campaigns and make an intersection of the sets of people they find, to still "identify" me.
* Yes, they don't sell personal information directly. This one is correct, and there is no reason to believe otherwise.
You can argue that my points are far-fetched, but in the end I am the one who determines the value of my data, not Google.
* Even if advertisers can target audiences in groups of at least 100 people, advertisers can run multiple campaigns and make an intersection of the sets of people they find, to still "identify" me.
* Yes, they don't sell personal information directly. This one is correct, and there is no reason to believe otherwise.
You can argue that my points are far-fetched, but in the end I am the one who determines the value of my data, not Google.