alt Hacker NewsWhat's the absolute worst thing Google could be doing with that analytics data?
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fsflover • today at 5:13 PM
Sell it to insurance companies, employers? Use it to target ads of snake oil to vulnerable people?
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What's the absolute worst thing Google could be doing with that analytics data?
Sell it to insurance companies, employers? Use it to target ads of snake oil to vulnerable people?
Selling the fact that you visited a suicide prevention website to anyone who cares to buy it. Google analytics knows exactly who you are the second you access a site that uses Analytics.
You don't have to be logged in. You don't even have to be a Google customer. They have IP and browser fingerprinting to uniquely identify people through aggregation of all their sources.