Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

Re:Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to adver... by codedokode on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:48AM (#20877147)

> On September 5th 2018, Google announced that it would no longer share encrypted cookie IDs in bid requests with buyers in its Authorized Buyers marketplace, “as part of our ongoing commitment to user privacy”. Mr Ryan’s analysis also found that Google continued to share these with ad firms.

But now Google shares not cookies, but unique URLs. Look, they kept their promise.

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Re:Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to adver... by ModsCtrlideas on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:13AM (#20877899)

I too have learned not to believe in government solutions to problems.

As a result I stopped searching for... Well unfortunately I'm one of those, "nothing to hide" people.

Life as usual.

If I needed to use google without anyone knowing, either use a public computer, or a stack of layers to remove IP, browser id, cookies, etc... Unique URLs would not trace far.

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Re:Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to adver... by zwkrt on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:41AM (#20878235)

Just for the record, google is not in compliance. The law is not a switch statement where you just need to find that magic missing “break” and then the system is pwned. Justice is not a mathematical equation.

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Re:Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to adver... by ModsCtrlideas on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:59PM (#20879112)

Sure and as a result, I cannot trust them to do their job.

Historically they suck.

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