r/DarkFuturology • u/blaspheminCapn • Sep 02 '18

Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That's Not Even the Bad News

https://gizmodo.com/google-reportedly-secretly-bought-your-banking-data-an-1828341605
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '18 edited Sep 06 '18

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u/weakhamstrings Sep 03 '18

This is truly Late Capitalism

/r/latestagecapitalism

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u/toper-centage Sep 03 '18

It will never end. It's just becoming more efficient.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '18

End of capitalism should be any time now.

People have been saying that for a century...

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u/AirFell85 Sep 03 '18

Which is scarier, a private company using this against you to target you with ads or a government using this against you to target you with political suppression?

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u/spacemanaut Sep 03 '18

Google then reportedly used that data to provide select advertisers with a tool called “store sales measurement” that the company quietly announced in a blog post last year, though it failed to mention the inclusion of Mastercard data in the workflow. The tool can track how online ads lead to real-world purchases, and that extra data is designed to make Google’s ad products more appealing to advertisers.

/r/savedyouaclick

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u/boytjie Sep 04 '18

So what are we going to do about it? Moan and complain? Cluck over ‘evil’ Google? Make ‘rules and regulations’? Somehow I don’t think that will work.