I very much doubt that you know all the parties to whom you are constantly being sold by Google. You do realize that Google does not benefit from keeping your info to themselves, right?
>You do realize that Google does not benefit from keeping your info to themselves, right?
Of course they do. That's literally their business model, to use that data to serve more relevant ads. If they gave it to third parties then they would lose their biggest competitive advantage.
>We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
That's a technically true and practically meaningless statement. No lying required.
Google's business model relies on giving advertisers a way to target you based on that data and to track you to other activities down the line. Advertisers might never see the data itself, but all that means is Google is selling the product that lets advertisers do the things they were going to do if they actually did have the data, just without being able to see your specific info.
Whether you consider that equivalent to selling your data is a separate question. You'll find a lot of disagreement here about it.
> Whether you consider that equivalent to selling your data is a separate question. You'll find a lot of disagreement here about it.
I can't remember previously seeing an argument that this is equivalent. Sharing one quality (in this case the ability to target users on Google's platform based on data Google has collected) does not make two things equivalent. Data passing between hands is obviously different than one entity providing an interface for another entity to utilise data without having it themselves, as in the former case you are now trusting both entities to safely store it which increases the chance of public disclosure (or private exposure that results in negative personal effects such as embarrassment and/or blackmail).
