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The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/ reports that Google has talked retailers into sharing data from credit card transactions, which it will link to location and other data, to further enhance consumer profiling*.
The article says "Google for years has been mining location data from Google Maps in an effort to prove that knowledge of people's physical locations could "close the loop" between physical and digital worlds. Users can block this by adjusting the settings on smartphones, but few do so, say privacy experts.
This location tracking ability has allowed Google to send reports to retailers telling them, for example, whether people who saw an ad for a lawn mower later visited or passed by a Home Depot. The location-tracking program has grown since it was first launched with only a handful of retailers. Home Depot, Express, Nissan, and Sephora have participated."
* and erode privacy.
The article also makes it clear than consumers don't get to opt-out, if they even find out their data has been shared.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:20PM (6 children)
Germany is full of Muslims that exercise violence and attacks against pretty much everyone else. Out of the ashes into the fire..
(Score: 3, Informative) by Unixnut on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:25PM
And as publicly reminded a couple of days ago, where I currently am (UK) isn't exactly blossoming with peace, tranquility and goodwill among men, now is it?
(Score: 5, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:15PM (4 children)
Yes, this is exactly right. Parent post is not exaggerating in the slightest, and nor am I. I went to Munich earlier this year and was surprised to find that instead of warm hospitality, ancient architecture and smiling drindl-clad Fraulien serving fine bier and traditional fare in beautiful surroundings, I was actually greeted by a blasted, post-apocalyptic wasteland, where gangs of muslims on dirty motorbikes roam the charred remains of the streets, preying up on the weak and unwary. Rather than a safe, pleasant and somewhat boozy business trip in a clean, modern, welcoming city, I had to endure two and a half days of gruelling life-or-death encounters with packs of feral AK-wielding jihadis. Scarred, burned and bleeding, I only just made it out with the majority of my limbs still attached, and for the rest of my life the mere smell of Taboulleh will induce screaming PTSD. What's more they had run out of nuts on the flight back. No bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:48PM (1 child)
Be thankful you're far from the horrible "carnage" going on in Chicago, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016).
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:28PM
Warm winter?
How many were within 3 miles of State & 95th?
There are two Chicago: one is a nice -if crowded- big city with shops and life, the other is a 3rd-world wasteland of poverty with active gang wars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)
I hope that this is not sarcasm. Women are being raped and killed by muslims in Germany due to the mass migration. The videos posted on youtube asking the world to help are soul crushing. Germany is dying
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday May 25 2017, @10:49AM
Of course it is sarcasm, you steaming moron. Germany is a safe, stable, affluent country. It's a great place to live or to visit. Go there. Sure, it has some crime like anywhere else, but it's not some kind of warzone like Breitbart would have you believe.