[andrerm]

Why do you think Google is indexing all your online purchases?

Look, online tracking inevitably leads to behavioral profiling. Put two behavioral profiles side by side and you have scoring, ranking. Add some weight on behaviors, age, income etc. and you have a social credit system.

Edit: the question is not if big tech already have social scores in us or not. The questions are when and how they will use it

[word-reader]

Exactly; let's say you have a social media record or even a browsing history that indicates labor activism (or drug use, or health issues, or any other kind of activism). That data is saved somewhere, associated with you directly or just assembled into a behavioral profile for ad targeting purposes -- at least for now and as far as we can tell. And like racial bias, this data can be dumped into a neural net with a score at the end to launder what exactly is going on.

[goatinaboat]

Why do you think Google is indexing all your online purchases?

See https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/google-scans-your...