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by higherpurpose 4131 days ago
So there are two issues I was talking about:

1) rotation of tokens/virtual card numbers

2) giving the transaction data to merchants

From what you copied here it seems that Google is rotating the virtual numbers - however, there's no way of knowing if Google isn't still tracking all of those numbers through your account and linking them back together for data mining. I think there's a high probability Google is doing that. Google only says it's rotating the numbers.

And that leads us to #2, which remains completely unanswered. Google says it doesn't give the credit card information to merchants (as in your real credit card number). However it could still give the transaction data.

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Google is the payment processor, of course they track and store the transactions.