And AFAIK, and from what I heard from friends working at google, everything is linked to a google gaia account, if you don't have one, you don't exist for them.
Have you deleted your Google and Fb account yet?
They’re tracking my location and correlating that, ads seen, spending patterns, web activity, who I associate with, and all the rest?
I call shenanigans.
if you don't have one, you don't exist for them
Except as a shadow profile.
But you agreed to that, didn't you?
Do you remember agreeing to your credit rating agency collecting your info?
> Except as a shadow profile.
Interesting, source?
The conclusion was no, but they are gathering more data from third parties so as to make direct listening unproductive. I found that more disturbing that Facebook has real-time access to whatever they believe I am looking at on Amazon, as presumably other places.
Someone in the NHS needs to be held responsible too.
At the end of the day, all of these questions always come down to trust and just trust.
"Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge."
"Google starts tracking offline shopping"
Sure. Deleting the accounts surely is enough.