Isn't Google doing the same thing to people who email Gmail users?
If I write "Leroy Jenkins likes rushing" in an email, does Google create a persona called Leroy Jenkins, assigns a quality "likes rushing" to it and tries to match it to other data?
I always heard that user data is firewalled by default inside Google (PII data from one user isn't used on other users, unless explicitly shared).
Even on Photos Google seems to only allow you to appear as a suggestion on your contact's photos after you explicitly opt-in and explicitly selecting "which one is your face":
https://9to5google.com/2017/05/25/google-photos-suggested-sh...
With a very large fraction of all email now passing through Google's servers you can expect them to be able to piece together the missing bits with high fidelity.
The clowns are being elected by the voters, not by companies, terrorists will always be able to do their deeds in an open society, if some fail just throw more bodies at the problem, and financial meltdowns can be prevented by banking oversight (and a lot of that oversight just got canceled by the stroke of some clowns pen so you can brace for the next round in ~5 to 10 years from now).
https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650
> Does Google use my organization’s data in G Suite services or Cloud Platform for advertising purposes?
> No. There are no ads in G Suite Services or Google Cloud Platform, and we have no plans to change this in the future. 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.
What other purposes would they use it for? Can anyone think of one?
https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970141/how-google-scans-y...
Oh, and for indexing, of course.
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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That's just nonsense, nobody does this, people just send mail through some client and never ever check MX records by hand unless they are trying to debug some kind of problem, in fact, the vast majority of people have no clue that something like an MX record even exists. To them email is roughly equivalent to magic.
I get that it's not common or simple, but "absolutely no way" doesn't mean absolutely no way that's common and simple. It's doable and, if you want to avoid it, there's plenty of ways to ensure that you never send directly to a Google server.
That's your problem right there. The general population has no way of knowing this, you do, but that's only because of your professional background.
So, for lay people there is absolutely no way and that's the vast majority of them, for us internet techies there are ways but they are moderately involved and too impractical for everyday use. And even then, you've established that you will send your email through google, what are you going to do now? Ah yes, send it anyway.
user@example.com$ cat "./forward"
user@gmail.com