Theoretically positive in how it effects peoples lives, as you'll start getting ads that you actually give a damn about, but I agree, disturbingly intrusive.
That's illegal unless you gave it to them yourself or gave the establishments that have your medical records express permission to give it to them.
Under HIPAA they can't even give your protected health information to your family or even to other medical entities treating you with express permission.
The only entities that can obtain it without your permission are law enforcement agencies, and only with a warrant.
EDIT: Assuming you are in the US.
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So they collect data somehow its "private" but they use that data to show us specific ads, how do they know to show X ad instead of Y ad to person Z with out keeping some kind of record on person Z to know they should be shown X ad. The whole line about privacy is bullshit, they have to know what to send to who even if its some long alpha/numeric number as an ID the data associated with that is stored and they can easily track the IP of that when they are sent custom ad's.
There is no way this system can protect privacy, not when its designed to track, collect, and transmit data to specific users. Customer#Alpha12345 likes bacon and buys lots of it, hey look they were just sent an ad to IP 123.123.123 i wonder who they are...lets track that IP....hey looks Customer#Alpha12345 is actually John Smith from accounting!
I honestly don't care too much about privacy, really. We're in an age where everything you do is monitored, traceable, and archived. So, it doesn't matter to me when considering the inevitability.
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Not really, no. It's something done to provide customers with additional security, but it's not illegal. They're required to truncate them on electronic receipts, but if you're old enough (like me) to remember the days before digital transactions, when cards were processed by using carbon paper imprinting, the full number was always visible on those. And it's not remotely illegal for the company to use your credit card number internally; they NEED to be able to know it and use it, to process and justify the purchase you made.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/busi...esses-truncate
Several details of the law are worth noting: It applies only to electronically printed receipts, not to handwritten or imprinted ones. And it applies only to receipts you give your customer at point of sale, not to any transaction record you retain.
Straight from the FTC's mouth.
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Hence why I pay cash for sensitive purchases and salt my internet searches.
Eh, your purchases have been tracked, aggregated, and profiled for almost half a century now. Excuse me as I don't run and scream in hysteria so many decades later.
Just went and checked my bank's service agreement for credit cards; it clearly and explicitly states that they will collect personal information and are free to use it internally, to provide it to service providers (meaning any company they're partnering with to provide an offer to customers), and any subsidiary of my bank.
Your credit card number isn't privileged information, the way you think. The rules about receipts are so that your credit card number isn't readily visible on something you're likely to lose/throw away. The aim, there, is to prevent fraudulent purchasing, and that's pretty much it.
Also, this is kind of a derail, since nothing in the article suggests they're giving credit card numbers directly. They're giving purchase history data, which Google's connected to offline behaviour.
Completely different piece of information, and completely different rules apply.Many companies know your social security number, too. (at least here). I'm faaaaaaairly sure they are not allowed to give out that information further.