Privacy News Secret Mastercard contract sent Offline Transaction Records to Google

[Ink]

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales

Via Mastercard has secret contract to supply Google with offline transaction records

• A previously-unknown Mastercard-Google agreement was just exposed by Bloomberg.
• The agreement gives Google a way to connect online advertisements to offline sales in physical stores.
• Both Google and Mastercard declined to give statements specifically related to this previously-unknown contract.

Read more: Bloomberg: Google found the perfect way to link online ads to store purchases: credit card data

 

[upnorth]

Sounds like a possible GDPR case again on Google and now also on Mastercard. Ka-ching...

 

[RejZoR]

I used to love Google. Now I just wish this cancer would just die along with Facebook, Twitter and other garbage data hoarders.

 

[HarborFront]

Hmmmmmm..........thinking of changing to VISA card now

 

[509322]

Hmmmmmm..........thinking of changing to VISA card now

LOL... VISA sells its data too. Every single credit card company does. Not to mention that they report all your data to consumer reporting bureaus. With that, all your personal data resides on many different servers and when those servers get hacked proper, your data is compromised.

There is no way of reigning it in until companies are held liable. Until that changes, nothing will change.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Not saying banks make a profile of you based on your age, gender, ethnicity, social level, salary, expenses/savings behaviors, banks relations, etc... to tag you as bad or good customer deserving quality services or not... blindsided people complain about some tech giants data mining, when they totally ignore the oldest one...

itwt

 

[Dhruv2193]

This is one of the ways these corporations have become so big. Many more such clandestine agreements would be in place for big corporations like Google and mastercard probably.

 

[Klappis]

Sounds like a possible GDPR case again on Google and now also on Mastercard. Ka-ching...

Don't love a company every especially a company like Google! You're always the product.

 

[Kuttz]

Not saying banks make a profile of you based on your age, gender, ethnicity, social level, salary, expenses/savings behaviors, banks relations, etc... to tag you as bad or good customer deserving quality services or not... blindsided people complain about some tech giants data mining, when they totally ignore the oldest one...

itwt

True. I once casually searched information regarding various medical insurance schemes online from the very next day onward I started seeing ads about medical insurances in many web sites that I frequently visits. I even started receiving medical insurance ads in my gmail ID. It is almost impossible to stay anonymous in Internet life when giants like Google, FB, MS exists.