Google absolutely harvests all info they can get. They scan gmails, they monitorig everything on all Android phones, even when you disable something [1].
It's just that Google maybe be a bit hesitant to sell data to 3rd parties, since they abuse them themselves :)
> It's just that Google maybe be a bit hesitant to sell data to 3rd parties
Which is the entire point. I know Google is taking data when I use Google products. The problem arises when Google freely gives my data to a random third party company I neither know nor trust, without my knowledge.
Because at least then you know who has your data. If I agree to Google having some of my data because I trust them with it to some extent that does not mean I want to give any third party access to that data. And I'm not saying there's any reason to trust Google with your data, but at least you'll know who really has access to that data.
The exact quote is "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change." I know they still scan my emails, because airbnb reservations will magically pop up on my calendar.
Information about events, flights, parcel tracking, etc. are explicitly provided by email senders for things like automatic calendar integration by the email client. https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg
Nope, using Facebook credentials. That's definitely a possibility.
Maybe I'm cynical, but whenever I see qualifiers around a verb I get suspicious. Something like "hey, we're not lying when we said we stopped scanning emails for ad purposes, but we are still scanning to improve other Google ecosystems tools like Calendar".
I was looking at Google Plus again last week and there's a lot of interesting things about it. I kind of wish they would spin it off into its own company.
It's just that Google maybe be a bit hesitant to sell data to 3rd parties, since they abuse them themselves :)
(and this is the price of a 'free' service).
[1]: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-tracking-user-loca...