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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by jacquesm on Friday May 26, 2017 @07:19PM (#14427902)
> We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other G Suite services. Google does not collect or use data in G Suite services for advertising purposes.

You could drive several trucks sideways through the holes in that statement.

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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by Applejinx on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:53PM (#14428500)
On the other hand, training neural networks and teaching computers to have general intelligence is not inherently an advertising purpose ;)
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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by ReverseCold on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:44PM (#14428476)
> for advertising purposes

What other purposes would they use it for? Can anyone think of one?

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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by ucaetano on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:20PM (#14428598)
Malware. Child porn. They actually do both:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970141/how-google-scans-y...

Oh, and for indexing, of course.

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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by pbhjpbhj on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:35AM (#14429396)
How about generating a "lifestyle profile" (or psych profile).

They could sell that to a third party, then buy back the profile compounded with other third parties's data to use for advertising. Bonus points if Alphabet (aka Google) control all the companies involved.

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