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Originally Posted by Difflugia
In a purely technical sense, you're incorrect. There are different stamps with different rates (in the U.S., anyway) for postcards and first-class envelopes. Different rates = different services.
Furthermore, I think it's stretching a bit to equate the difficulty of setting up PGP to work with Gmail with that of buying an envelope.
I don't care if every mail sorter reads my postcard. My beef is with the equivalent of entering all of them into a database that can correlate this postcard with my other postcards and everyone else's as well.
I understand that there isn't in fact (and that it's unlikely to get better), but I don't understand why anyone (except Google) would claim that there shouldn't.
As a quick example, there's nothing preventing Google from parsing Amazon receipts and recording what you've bought in the past and how much you've paid for it. At that point, they don't know any more than Amazon, but then if they parse receipts from other online stores, Google then knows more about your purchasing habits than any of the individual stores. They can then sell access to that information back to the vendors. It would be relatively easy to figure out if you shop around for a good price or if you pay whatever your favorite vendor charges. From an economic/negotiation perspective, that creates a huge information asymmetry and it's to your disadvantage. So far Google doesn't appear to have leveraged it ("Don't be evil" and all that), but bear in mind that what they're currently asking the court for is the legal latitude to do those kinds of things (or rather, to have the court affirm that they already had it).
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They already do that they don't and wont sell the data though as that would be counter productive to their business model they just use it to target the most relevant ads for their customers without giving out user data. So if you are selling something Google will target the your most likely customers for you but wont tell you who they targeted. (Google Now) Google scans etickets that are emailed to you to show you your flight time etc They will probably get better and better at identifying such info so you would be informed of the Show, Concert or Movie ticket you've booked. Or if you have booked concert tickets in a different city it will find and show you ads from airlines or maybe a rental car company if that your preferred mode of travel.