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“Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used.” This is one of Google’s two “unequivocal” policies.

How does this hold up when Google IS selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?

  • JCreazyEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Transferring data is not the same thing thing as selling data. Your data is being transferred, the money exchanged is for the servers, not for the data.

    • orbit@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      While this is the technicality they’ll die on, the value of the data in the transfer was 100% taken into account in this deal.

    • 133arc585@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      the money exchanged is for the servers, not for the data

      That doesn’t hold up.

      That’s like when you buy a sticker and the ounce of weed just “comes with it”. The money is for the sticker, not the weed. If your concern is who has your data, whether it was sold alone or as part of some other purchase doesn’t matter.

  • Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.comEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    They aren’t third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don’t like it, don’t continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This is actually a good question. With the usual restrictions on the sale of data, what happens if a complete company gets sold? Does selling your whole company let you sidestep restrictions on selling customer data?