this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
253 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59446 readers
3750 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
253
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data::undefined

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Google doesn’t sell your data. That would eliminate their entire business model.

What Google sells is a platform with access to that data to target ads. They have the data, you have a target audience you want to advertise to, you pay them to make sure your ads reach your target with surgical precision.