Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you.
Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.
Yes, they are: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
It is only change in "terms of service" away after enough people are using it.
The Google Rewards app is always wanting a photo of receipts when I pay with a credit card. Why would this be any different, especially when they would have access to the data so easily?
So one might only have hours to react before implicitly agreeing by failing to opt out or cancel. Perhaps even less of the change in terms is effective immediately.
"Do the right thing."
I do want an entity I trust at a given time (eg. Google, Apple, some credit union, etc.) to mine the raw data they have on my account and do something useful with it as long as neither the raw data nor the derived one is shared with other third parties.
My idea of something useful here isn't ads per se but currently I see ads for Google Fi in Gmail even though I'm a subscriber. That's pretty dumb
1) Google Pay will never sell your information.
2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties
3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads.
I'm not sure why you assume anything about my trust with Google?
So he's being very misleading here, likely deliberately. They don't directly share it with the rest of Google, but indirectly your Google Pay data is still laundered through shady Mastercard deals to Google's ad behemoth anyway.
Google Pay -> Data laundered through Mastercard -> Google Ads
Before trusting them with your financial data, just remember the long list of broken promises they did before!
for example: * Gmail that was supposed to be unlimited for free for ever until they reached dominance; * same with google photo unlimited storage; * Google music that suggested you upload all your musique; * Android that is more and more closed and limited years after years; * The Google cars secretly collecting wifi data * The "don't be evil" not annoyed to create a censured search engine for China * The geolocation data that was deceptively recorded and kept, and provided to the police for geofencing for the US * The company that closes and blocks accounts for futile reasons without any 'human' support if don't have social media fame.
> Google Pay will never sell your data to third parties or share your transaction history with the rest of Google for targeting ads.
Needs to be a little more categorical.
Google’s promises are worth shit.
Disc: Googler.
Google closes your bank account, you potentially lose your email, passwords, contacts, documents...
By the way, why is closing an account a practice instead of closing just the sending of emails?
Last time I heard this type of story was back in Google+ times when it was trying to enforce some silly real name policy.
Several of these stories have appeared on HN just over the past year or so as well.
Edit: The amount of downvoting on this and my original comment is puzzling to me. If someone who takes issue with it would care to explain what the problem is, I'd sincerely like to hear about it.