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Google IS selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace? (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Text of tweet:

"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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MoonshineBrew 1 points 1 year ago

Squarespace isn't buying your data though, it is buying domains.

It's the same as a company getting sold to another company, eg. Microsoft buying Blizzard entertainment wasn't selling data, even though personal data of customers was transferred from blizzard to microsoft. It legally isn't selling your data.

And if someone has a problem with it, the only solution is deleting everything he has on the domain and canceling the subscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.