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While "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is great, I don't understand why everyone assumes that Google uses the user data it gathers _only_ to enhance search and for selling advertising. Look at all the things people are using chatbots for today and then ask yourself what could you use a chatbot trained on user behavior for? This is like having a window into the psyche of the world, an oracle of global scope. Maybe they use it to evaluate which companies to buy? For doing market research and product evaluation? For analyzing corruption in government? Seems like there would be a million uses of it, all of them exclusive to Google because they have the most comprehensive data. Remember that they collect location data also. Imagine what China and Russia would do with that data if they had it (and look at what they are already doing with the data they have).