Comment by torginus
2 days ago
My favourite 'thing' in the modern world is that 'we don't process and store your data' has taken to mean - 'we don't process and store your data - our partner does'.
Which might not even be stated explicitly, it might be that they just move it somewhere and then pass it on again, at which point its outside the legal jurisdiction of your country's ability to enforce data protection measures.
Even if such a scheme is not legal, the fact that your data moves through multiple countries with different data protection measures, enforcing your rights seems basically impossible.
"We don't sell your data" translates to "we sell OUR data about you".
They would never admit the data belongs to you while selling it. When they sell it, they declare themselves the owners of that data, which they derived from things you uploaded or told them, so they're never selling your data according to their lawyers.
Another thing they like to do is sell the use or access to this data, without transferring the legal rights to the data, so they can say with a straight face they never sold the data. Google loves this loophole and people here even defend it.