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Google Utilizing Consumer Gmail Accounts to Track Purchases, Financial Transactions

May 21, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Corporate Evil, Corruption, Tracking, Corporate Accountability, Death of Privacy

News of recently revealed and egregious tracking behaviors at Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG); specifically Google is using your Gmails account to track your purchases. Our suggestions is to immediately remove any financial transaction related messaging from your Gmail accounts without delay - unless of course, you trust Google...

"While Google told us that you can delete this information at any time, they did not mention how much of a pain it is to do so. Instead of having a single setting that allows you to control how this data is saved, you need to go into each and every purchase and click on the Remove Purchase button. This will bring you to the original email that the data was pulled from and once this email is trashed, the purchase will be removed from the Purchases page. " - via Lawrence Abrams, reporting at Bleeping COmputer

May 21, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Corporate Evil, Corruption, Tracking, Corporate Accountability, Death of Privacy
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