You can check your own purchase history at https://t.co/yEgmsdTuiX, "…#Google says it doesn’t use this information to sell you ads." ? #BigData #Privacy https://t.co/z8UlYExNcB

— Alasdair Allan (@aallan) May 17, 2019

at some point the notion of “collecting all this data improves your ad experience” is just silly. there’s no reason to have this much stored information. there should be limited time periods to store such information before auto deleting. it should be default. https://t.co/aqRPTuMQgO

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 17, 2019

The purchase history here is just...

Has everything from what I bought for lunch at a sushi counter yesterday, to movies I've seen years ago, to Candy Crush upgrades, and what appears to be every single Amazon purchase I've made dating back to 2013https://t.co/GPB1E8nteM

— mat honan (@mat) May 17, 2019

Everybody last week: Check out this great article on zombie subscriptions costing you money. Pure evil!

Everybody this week: Check out this tool that organizes all of your purchases so you know what you’re buying. Why would Google think we want this? https://t.co/LV4X5Q7TFd

— Navin R. Johnson (@pt) May 18, 2019

This is precisely why I don’t use a personal Gmail account https://t.co/tBV86vRKTR

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 18, 2019

Google showed off some amazing, inspiring stuff at the last IO, but their gaslighting over privacy shows they still don’t respect their own users or business model enough to be honest about what they do. https://t.co/FQyJdRNVFy

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) May 17, 2019

My key issue with this weird outrage https://t.co/dDQYsoGcVK is that Google already has all those and any other emails that come into Gmail, stored on its servers. And "reads" ALL OF THEM to help you deal with spam.

1/3

— Stasys Bielinis (@Staska) May 18, 2019

Ah, I am feeling so vindicated for keeping my information away from Gmail the last 15 years. https://t.co/r1etFmbEE9

— Frisco Uplink, a mammal (@_danilo) May 17, 2019

After seeing their purchase history, I wonder how many people will ask if DuckDuckGo offers email… https://t.co/IEVXUKprDo

— Drew Breunig (@dbreunig) May 18, 2019

The only thing bothering me about the Google purchases page is that it doesn't have charts & analytics that help me better understand my purchasing history and spending habits (via @Techmeme )

https://t.co/ikzRDNRo6S

— Mustapha Hamoui (@Beirutspring) May 18, 2019

"We don't use it to sell ads" is not a get out clause for the collection huge amounts of data. @sundarpichai, why doesn't this page have a big "delete all" button on it, in keeping with recent pledges? https://t.co/uU17uyU8VT https://t.co/ZI2ZhsYV9Y

— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBC) May 17, 2019

What blows my mind about this is that the ad targeting is still mediocre at best

— nilay patel (@reckless) May 17, 2019

Google tracks your purchase history. And so do your banks and payment providers. https://t.co/tF8WfOxACh

— Paolo Amoroso (@amoroso) May 18, 2019

Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here https://t.co/4tnsQxDVlQ

— TNW (@thenextweb) May 18, 2019

Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here https://t.co/TB4W804p7H

— TNW (@thenextweb) May 18, 2019

Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here https://t.co/G7dzvvZajj

— TNW (@thenextweb) May 18, 2019

Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases — see it for yourself, here https://t.co/HA2cqRpbi6 via @thenextweb

— Bukhori M. Aqid (@bukhorimuhammad) May 18, 2019

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail https://t.co/Aw27tRkY49 pic.twitter.com/b5cyzRKXO7

— ぱんだ【INFP】 (@Panda__INFP) May 18, 2019

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail #google #ransomware @wired https://t.co/OWkFcBDgIS

— Evan Kirstel (@evankirstel) May 18, 2019

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail https://t.co/Nwkwg5mN7H #Privacy #Security pic.twitter.com/jEmdpMiC73

— #AI (@AI__TECH) May 18, 2019

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail #InfoSec https://t.co/0b99DdkbNC

— Kevin Tembo (@KevTembo) May 18, 2019

Gmail's log of all of your purchases pops up in the privacy debate https://t.co/sqwLFV4jVB

— PresidentTrump (@RichardTBurnett) May 18, 2019

7 Google privacy settings you should revisit right now https://t.co/EK6BavcuZA

— Adam Welcome (@mradamwelcome) May 17, 2019

“7 Google privacy settings you should revisit right now” https://t.co/x6rgD5tlGF #edchat #edtech

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) May 18, 2019

Google's pretty good about giving you control over how it uses your data — but it's up to *you* to seek out the options.

I put together a roadmap to some of the most consequential Google privacy settings. Make sure your account is set up the way you want:https://t.co/k1HNJbOl3a

— JR Raphael (@JRRaphael) May 17, 2019

A few useful things in here. Your mileage may vary, of course. https://t.co/tGs0HI3qXM

— Gary Singh (@gary_singh) May 17, 2019

Maybe Google should introduce a sweeping Incognito feature—flip one switch, and you’re in private mode across all its services. Until then, @JRRaphael is here to help. https://t.co/Ab5j4Z7ntS

— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) May 17, 2019

With a bit of tweaking, it’s possible to get a lot out of Google services while sharing much less data. https://t.co/Ab5j4Z7ntS

— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) May 17, 2019

That's the whole point. This is how we keep track of things these days. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that Gmail scans your emails. My question is why aren't people scared of banks, Walmart and other places tracking their purchases? #Gmail https://t.co/W5H2vGMnEa

— Ace Lucero (@AceLuceroTech) May 18, 2019

Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here https://t.co/fHZPw8q9BA

— TNW (@thenextweb) May 19, 2019

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail
(And then uses it to sell you more stuff)#CyberSecurity #privacy @gmail @Google
via @WIREDhttps://t.co/39gQtYWdPg

— HighCrown (@HighCrownGroup) May 19, 2019

Oh Great, #Google #Tracks

What You #Buy #Online With #Gmail https://t.co/yU6KwiNgNS #fintech #privacy @brbarrett @WIRED #BigData pic.twitter.com/B4bWCWNNdq

— Spiros Margaris (@SpirosMargaris) May 19, 2019

So google reads my gmail and tracks my online purchases. Nice.

Remind me just how you justify making me use gmail for my work email, @UWITNews?https://t.co/z1Mon61PIM … pic.twitter.com/8I9Oq2HfIC

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) May 18, 2019

Oh this new Google purchases thing in Gmail is quite convenient. Thanks @wired for pointing it out. https://t.co/F0cVIWyQuO Google should promote it more.

— Joshua Gans (@joshgans) May 18, 2019

Google allows for the maximum amount of data collection across its various apps and services. If you really want to claim control over exactly how Google collects your activity and uses that information, the onus is on you to take…https://t.co/AYBngAwCoy https://t.co/h5Yxos0hFw

— A S Rajgopal (@AsRajgopal) May 18, 2019