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As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off
(go.theregister.com)
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How many times I've been told "It's okay if its Google because at least it isn't the government!"
Fucker they will sell it to anyone who pays. Including the government.
iirc google don't sell data, they only buy it. which makes sense considering they run their own advertising network. why would they help other networks? and they're already embedded at some point into everyone's lives, wether iphone, android, Google search engine or not. as for the government getting the data: google legally have to comply with information requests or gag requests from the USA government, as that's where their datacentres are mostly based as well as their company itself.
Just because it's legal doesn't make it better. Slavery used to be legal
And sure, they don't directly sell the user data but they'll use it in any way possible for their ad customers to target and profit off of you
yea ik it's not right, I never said it was. but they still have to comply with law whether they want to or not if their home country.
If they're giving away the data of their users to be allowed to continue operating and profiting in the country, they're selling data
You're taking it too literally. Working for a company is also referred to as selling your labor
selling data in the article is referring to actual advertising data transactions on the "marketplace" or whatever. You're expanding it to mean something more nebulous.
that's a fair point.
Oh my apologies, the ruthless corporation said it doesn't do it, so it must be true.
doesn't make sense for them to sell data though. they're such a big company with so many competitors in literally any space. why would they bother selling it when they can just buy it, hoard it to make their own network stronger?
Profit
they make enough money from their own data collection, selling it would actually end up LOSING them profit as that money would go to other advertising agencies.
You're expecting a private company to stop at "enough"?
They do both.
They literally don't. I don't know why you feel the need to infer some super secret financial transactions. The article is talking about "above-board" financial transactions on ad data marketplaces. Any data transferred to the US government is using their other programs which probably are more convoluted than just handing over money.
I never said it was secret
This has some strong “Trump’s already rich as we know he isn’t going to try to turn a profit on the presidency” energy