That is exactly what I meant. You use PII to create whatever product(s) you sell to 3rds. I read the EULA over a decade ago. Good on Goog for stating it plainly. My answer is still, NO. Even when I go to .govs & other sites using Goog apis(UBO). More people would concur if they had an idea of how much all the minutia the SV giants(& the other alphabets)hoover up about our lives. And how it's used against us in daily commerce.
As for your red herring, I can only guess how mal-scans can be monetized. If anyone can do it, I have no doubt Goog will.
> As for your red herring, I can only guess how mal-scans can be monetized. If anyone can do it, I have no doubt Goog will.
Well yes, they're very clearly monetized: Google supplies a email service which it sells to businesses as part of GSuite. One of the selling points of this email service is spam protection. Is that a bad thing?
> You use PII to create whatever product(s) you sell to 3rds.
Ok, so if your concern is that a company has your PII, that's a concern I guess. But it makes it difficult to use the internet (or, like, shop at stores), since there are all kinds of companies that gobble up your PII but don't tell you or give you control over it (whereas Google does, for example, let you delete the data it has on you and control collection of much of the data it collects).
If you're going to argue that Google is bad for the same reason that your credit card company and Amazon and CVS are bad, then sure they all have your PII, but I'd still argue that Google behaves more ethically than the others when dealing with it.
The problem isn't just with companies having data, but with how they're using that data.
> whereas Google does, for example, let you delete the data it has on you and control collection of much of the data it collects
That's table stakes under GDPR. It's great that they do that, but it's still the bare minimum over here on the Old Continent. We can and should demand more.
As for your red herring, I can only guess how mal-scans can be monetized. If anyone can do it, I have no doubt Goog will.
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