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> And just think—we can sell the information we collect to other businesses. Or to the government or the police department. Anyone, really, who’s prepared to pay.

So sick of this lazy attack on Google. If they'll sell your data to anyone who's prepared to pay, where do I sign up to purchase your search history?

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You need just some millions to your name and to contact their sales people. But to protect themselves it will be sold in a way that makes it useful to you and still have plausible deniability. Like Facebook letting you advertise to users that liked or saw something, instead of just straight telling you who they are, though it is trivial to do so with some tracking on the website.

It's a big backpedal from "Google sells your data to advertisers" to "Google allows advertisers to target groups with particular interests, and in the extremely unlikely event that they guess what group you're in and you click the ad and they're able to match your IP or browser fingerprint to somehow identify you, then they might be able to infer some of your data."

You don't need to click any ads silly goose.

What data is Google selling access to that doesn’t involve the clicking of ads?

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