Hi,
here is see that a lot of people use Gmail as default mail address.
But anyone know that Gmail use all every data to make $$$ and use you as a product?
Of course.
Are you also aware that Apple uses our iTunes info and purchases and location to sell iAds?
Or that Apple has made over a billion dollars a year pimping us out to Google Search on iOS devices?
Customers are the product for everyone, not just Google.
That's really the question, I don't expect google to protect my privacy because its in their best interest to not do that.
On the contrary, it's totally in Google's interest to keep our info private. That is, after all, how they make money, by offering anonymous ad slots based on their private computerized knowledge of our target demographics.
If they revealed who we were, the future value of the info would be lost.
It's not the Apples or the Googles of the world that people have to worry about. They have incentive to keep our data private.
It's the hundreds or thousands of smaller data scrapers that DO attempt to match us up and sell who we are, and what our address is for flyers etc, who are the real daily threat.
They probably build detailed profiles and know a lot more about you then you think, such as your address (from shop receipts), contacts (from people you mail with), travel plans (from airline receipts) etc. pp.
Sure, just like Apple has built detailed profiles about its users. Although in their case, it's even less understandable, as they have plenty of revenue from other sources. Most people know that Google makes most of its money from ads in return for offering valuable services to everyone.
Another difference is that Google allows us to peek behind the curtain and see what slots we've been put into for ads. You can even modify them, which is very handy when you finally buy that new car and don't want to see car ads any more
For those who've never looked at their Google data or controls, you should. Just sign into your dashboard:
https://www.
google.com/
dashboard/
Under Account, choose Manage Account.
Under Ad Settings, Manage Ad Settings, you can see what slots they've put you into. Many of us often have the wrong sex, age, and old interests.
Under other settings, you can control if they keep your location and so forth. That's how Google Now learns where we work and when to warn us about traffic etc. Delete on the risk of losing that extra automated assistance.
Likewise, similar to how Apple does per device, Google keeps random voice samples globally to make voice control work better. One time I decided to remove all that stored info (years of it), and was sorry I did. It took a while to learn my voice again.
