If Facebook has proven to be a company with little responsibility when it comes to user privacy, it seems that its rivals are not to be trusted either.
As much as Google CEO Sundar Pichai tries to give lessons in morality and corporate responsibility by assuring that " privacy cannot be a luxury good," the technology company's practices undermine this discourse.
And the company continues to collect a large amount of data and personal information through services like Gmail. According to CNBC , the "Purchases" page shows an accurate list of products that users have purchased since at least 2012, even when they have not been purchased directly through Google.
This information is recorded through confirmation emails and purchase receipts that users receive from the companies they buy from online.
offer the user a complete view of the products they purchase, which can only be accessed by the affected individual and is not used to offer personalized ads.
They also state that this data can be deleted at any time, although to do so it is necessary to delete the email containing the purchase information.
However, even if this record is deleted from the “purchases” page, Google’s privacy page states that “information about orders may also be stored along with activity on other services” and to delete them you will have to go to the “My Activity” page.
But all is not lost, at least that's what the technology company says. The solution it offers is to disable tracking completely , an option that would be useful as long as the company allowed it, since CNBC has tried to do so, without success.
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