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That's their business model but not everything they do is in support of that. The hundred or thousands of employees that works on GSuite-only products like Currents and Meet don't care about phoning home data for ad targeting purposes. The same goes for a multitude of other things they do, eg. hardware, cloud computing, security, mapping (as in the actual mapping; I know G maps shows ads), and probably also 99% of people on the Chrome/Android teams.


And yet, the data they collect would reasonably be available to those in Google that do work in targeted ads. And they would know what to do with it.


As per this whitepaper[0], data made by organizations (in "G Suite Core Services"[1]) is not available to their ad platform, and most likely includes all the related services that are limited to G Suite accounts (Hangouts Chat, Currents, Meet, Jamboard, etc.).

> We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other G Suite services. Google does not collect or use data in G Suite services for advertising purposes.

I mention the other divisions of Google because what their job title is means they aren't "obligated" to collect everything for use by the ad platform, as the parent implies.

I also doubt much of the actual data is available to the ad platform. Do they know you visited console.cloud.google.com? Most likely via Chrome sync history and/or Google Analytics. Do they know whether or not your cloud project is running a single n1 instance or a fleet of c2 instances? I doubt it, especially because there's not much reason to encourage other cloud computing services to advertise to someone that's directly using a competing Google service.

0: https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

1: https://gsuite.google.com/terms/user_features.html




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