{"id":4278,"date":"2019-06-06T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2019-06-06T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:47:02","slug":"google-uses-gmail-to-track-a-history-of-things-you-buy-and-its-hard-to-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/06\/google-uses-gmail-to-track-a-history-of-things-you-buy-and-its-hard-to-delete\/","title":{"rendered":"Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy \u2014 and it\u2019s hard to delete"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"article__dek hed-l m-b-4-xs m-b-5-m\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a class=\"\" tabindex=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=GOOGL\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">Google<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/17\/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times\u00a0<a class=\"\" tabindex=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/07\/opinion\/google-sundar-pichai-privacy.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">op-ed<\/a>that said \u201cprivacy cannot be a luxury good.\u201d But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use, such as Gmail, and some of it can\u2019t be easily deleted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A page called \u201c<a class=\"\" tabindex=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/purchases\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">Purchases<\/a>\u00a0\u201d shows an accurate list of many \u2014 though not all \u2014 of the things I\u2019ve bought dating back to at least 2012. I made these purchases using online services or apps such as Amazon, DoorDash or Seamless, or in stores such as Macy\u2019s, but never directly through Google.<\/p>\n<p>But because the digital receipts went to my Gmail account, Google has a list of info about my buying habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u00a0tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon. Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times\u00a0op-edthat said \u201cprivacy cannot be a luxury good.\u201d But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpunion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}