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Google Fi "opted you in" to data selling - You can opt out of CPNI (fi.google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dawni to c/googlepixel

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Received an email from Google Fi that their policy is to "opt you in" to sell your phone-call and purchase info to advertisers. They call the data your CPNI — "Customer Proprietary Network Information". Making this an opt-out when it's a combo of your shopping data plus phone-call data (including destination and location) plus Google identity seems pretty egregious to me.

Anyway, the emailed notice is easy to overlook as just another policy update that you wouldn't do anything about. But you can opt out.

At https://fi.google.com/account, go to "Privacy & security", and deselect "Allow CPNI sharing". It's not in the Fi app; you have to do it in a browser.

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[–] piecat 52 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Damn, the setting isn't even in the app settings. That's sneaky. Fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Even more fun on Mobile Android, trying to login on the mobile site on browser...opens the Fi app because it was set up to handle links. You can remove the Fi app, change link handling for that domain, or use a computer, but yeah, some bullshit was afoot with that one

[–] velociroger 2 points 10 months ago

You can temporarily disable link handling for the Fi app (apps > default apps > opening links), make the privacy change in-browser, and then re-enable link handling after

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