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Comment by Terretta

5 months ago

True, while Google sees roughly 85% of all American cardholder swipes and doesn't need to sell it since they're making the ad market...

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fragmede  5 months ago

> while Google sees roughly 85% of all American cardholder swipe

I'm probably not reading this properly, can you say that a different way?

  • yolovoe  5 months ago

    Google buys transaction data from credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, etc). They almost certainly know what you spend money on

andrepd  5 months ago

How on earth is this legal

  • idle_zealot  5 months ago

    Things that aren't explicitly made illegal are legal. Who would invest the resources necessary to get a law banning this passed?

  • actionfromafar  5 months ago

    Corporations are people, too.

    • gruez  5 months ago

      Or phrased less inflammatory manner: "Corporations can enter into contracts and engage in legal action just like people can". Even the much maligned Citizens United v. FEC basically boils down to "groups of people (corporations or labor unions) don't lose first amendment protections just because they decided to group up".

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