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It is in violation of Google's core principles and policies, and will never happen. Ever googler understands, and has it hammered into their brains repeatedly, that the worst thing the company could do is breach user trust by exposing or trading on user/customer data.

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Perhaps, but I think it would be entirely within Google's principles to show me employment ads if some combination of my gmail and search usage indicated I might be looking for a new job.

Do the principles and policies you know of have some kind of ethics angle, or is it just about the (quite real) risk of bad PR that could harm the magic cookies driving the ad business?

Is it maybe bad for the economy at large that they keep all this to themselves and do not generate the corresponding profits?

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