Google does not sell your data to third parties. The data that companies, schools, and students put into our systems is theirs. Google’s customers own their data, not Google. Google processes your data to fulfill our contractual obligation to deliver our services. That's different than, "let's use your email to generally learn about you and recommend ads or content to you".īut, it's something we've also said legally: The data never leaves gmail, and it's not used for any other purpose, and no one has access to it. On the personalization side - smart compose in gmail, where there's typing recommendations, that's personalization, where a machine learning model looks at your email and generated a specific model for you that suggests text. Anyone who works in workspace could confirm that, it's something that is taken very seriously.
Googler here, who worked on Workspace (which gmail is a part of). Say what you will about the very fact that the same organization has both, but I do think the distinction is both important, and communicated well neither by Google nor by anyone else writing on the topic. Meta-comment, I find discussions of this type tend to elide the distinction between data used for personalization with data used for advertising. And there is a UI for deleting the purchase records from my history. I personally have precious few (4) items in this category, particularly when compared to the large number of purchase confirmation emails sitting in my Gmail account. According to to the help documentation of the category, it specifically refers to purchases made directly within Google Search, Maps, or Assistant. The assumption being made in this entire discussion is that the purchases are mined from Gmail, but that doesn't appear to be correct.įrom the screenshot, the items are part of the "Purchases and Reservations" activity category that the parent points to. I'm also a Googler these days (via Fitbit).
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