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Originally Posted by JackDidley
If they have my search history, there is that but they dont have my name address and shoe size unless they got it from a third party.
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Google has access to credit card data now. The camel's head in the tent.
https://www.pymnts.com/google/2018/access-mastercard-purchase-data/
The deal gives Google an ability to measure the impact digital ads have on physical retail spending unlike any of its rivals. It could also raise privacy issues since Google has been using and acquiring the data behind the scenes without the permission of the consumers.
They claim it's 'blind' data but that's nonsense.
(A.I. you've come a long way baby)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/22/how-just-a-zip-code-can-tell-a-marketer-exactly-who-you-are/
So how does your ZIP code fit into all of this? Just knowing a birthdate, gender and ZIP code is enough information to identify as many as 87 percent of people in the United States, according to pioneering data privacy work done by Harvard Professor Latanya Sweeney.
Not just identity but predictive behavior analysis.
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5802
Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
The s**t gets really thought-crime really fast...