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Originally Posted by SteamWake
What on earth makes you think they do not?
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My social network, my internet preferences and preferred items to buy are not interesting for them, they gain no advantage from it as long as they do not open a profit-interested economy branch by themselves or open investigations against me. As one of the underfunded government offices they also probably lack the technical capacity to do this kind of profiling all by themselves. And finally, they have no legal authority to use my data for this type of processing.
In case of ´Google, all these answers are very different. Google has a business interest to learn about my profile. They are neither underfunded nor limited in their tehcncial capacity to store and process data and use it for profiling, or sell it to companies using it for profiling. And while they do not have a legal call to do all this they are nevertheless legally free to do so. American law protects this type of invasive business. Much of what Us laws allows would be considered as violation of privatesphere in Europe, or illegal data mining. EU experts in the past considered the US to be a developement county regarding data protection legislation, while EU members themseoves, on the other hand, on not few occasions exaggerate it with data protection concerns. The US and Europe are different in this: privatesphere and data protection laws. That'S why there are frequent clashes over data sharing, air passenger data sharing, credit card data sharing, as well as conflicts with Google over things like streetview, etc etc etc.