[kuschku]

"Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data."

"Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge."

"Google starts tracking offline shopping"

Sure. Deleting the accounts surely is enough.

[ucaetano]

Oh, none of those are exclusive or even new. Your credit rating company has far more info on you that you didn't sign up for.

And AFAIK, and from what I heard from friends working at google, everything is linked to a google gaia account, if you don't have one, you don't exist for them.

Have you deleted your Google and Fb account yet?

[gaius]

Your credit rating company has far more info

They’re tracking my location and correlating that, ads seen, spending patterns, web activity, who I associate with, and all the rest?

I call shenanigans.

if you don't have one, you don't exist for them

Except as a shadow profile.

[ucaetano]

> They’re tracking my location and correlating that, ads seen, spending patterns, web activity, who I associate with, and all the rest?

But you agreed to that, didn't you?

Do you remember agreeing to your credit rating agency collecting your info?

> Except as a shadow profile.

Interesting, source?

[Spooky23]

Good point. This was used as a positive spin when there was the debate over whether Facebook is listening to your conversations.

The conclusion was no, but they are gathering more data from third parties so as to make direct listening unproductive. I found that more disturbing that Facebook has real-time access to whatever they believe I am looking at on Amazon, as presumably other places.

[gaius]

Indeed. It will take legislative action including no-knock raids on DCs and offices to rein them in.

Someone in the NHS needs to be held responsible too.

[fixermark]

It's interesting that you trust a government to execute a no-knock raid on a private company's datacenter (and extract only the information that is relevant without drag-netting unrelated private information) more than you trust that private company to secure your data (an exercise they have a vested economic interest in accomplishing).

At the end of the day, all of these questions always come down to trust and just trust.

[gaius]

I don’t mean extracting it - I mean destroying it.