Nope.
>Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...
Buying a copy of everyone's credit card transaction data, no matter who they bank through, is not even close to the same.
>I don't have to use Google services on Android. iOS ties me to Apple's privacy nightmare.
Nope. Apple's cloud service is every bit as optional as Google's.
The difference is that Google has been scanning everything in Google accounts for the past decade.
Google and Facebook, as the pioneers of surveillance capitalism, are both privacy nightmares.
