Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Date: 11 Mar 2019 10:38:06 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <2nsblf-amd.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net d3eqLGGf+gljNwHoSdVTIgiJI7bKT4+4yWbHRnhWEwtpCqSkI3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sdiOOd7Pi84+KDG1lJanbNuBScM= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17533 On 2019-03-11, RS Wood wrote: > On 2019-03-09, Huge wrote: >> On 2019-03-09, RS Wood wrote: >>> I mean, isn't that the point? Google knows all that, and far more. >>> They're also now correlating your online searches with physical >>> purchases (where you use a credit card), >> >> And how do they obtain your CC information? (Unless you use Google >> Pay, of course.) >> > > Start here, I'd say: > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/?utm_term=.08ef563a619d Well, that's behind a pyawall, so I won't be looking at it., but from this article... > https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-your-credit-card-purchases-and-connects-them-to-its-online-profile-of-you/ ... the answer to my question is ... they don't. I'd hazard a guess they're getting hold of loyalty card information. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 70th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3185 'O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.'