> We are living in a scary world and I DO NOT want someone to use my personal data to grow their business or run analytics without my consent.<p>Site has Google ads that are tailored using Google's analytics, so site owner IS profiting off of visitors' personal data.
Anecdotal, but when I visit my mom, I make sure we sit down to make sure she's being safe on the internet. Last time I visited, I used that link to double check she knows what she's subscribed to. To her and my surprise, I found a second Netflix account with 4 people on it under her email (but fortunately not her credit card). Looks like someone with a similar first and last name accidentally used her email for the account. I cancelled the account, but it's concerning that Netflix never sent a confirmation email to make sure they actually owned that email.
> During a Census (the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population) I willingly share my personal details such as Name, Age, Gender, Employment Status, Salary details to the agency so that they can take a better decision in providing the government schemes and services like how many new roads to be built, Town Planning, Employment Generation etc.<p>If you don't willingly the government can compel you to by force. The census is not a good example of voluntary information giving which is why its questions are a contentious political issue.
Ok, that's is strange! Thank you for this! On the list you can check the little (!) icon and find out, how google got the information. In my case two order items was extracted directly from gmail.
I'm fairly certain everyone with a gmail account, agreed to this behavior, I think its unnerving to see it categorized like this, they haven't been underhanded about this (not to say companies haven't been underhanded), or hiding it in anyway.<p>Too many people seem to skip reading what they are agreeing to, and then get upset when the company does what they agreed to allow them to.
I've closed my google account (and moved to proton) because I noticed this "feature". Of course, the positions are disappearing once mail gets deleted but google didn't ask me if I want this or had my permission to fetch data and prepare such list, not mention I don't find it in any way useful.
I saw that today and though the same thing, looks like they are getting it from email but I do wish I could limit what I let google link to these kinda things.