Received an email from Google Fi that their policy is to “opt you in” to sell your phone-call and purchase info to advertisers. They call the data your CPNI — “Customer Proprietary Network Information”. Making this an opt-out when it’s a combo of your shopping data plus phone-call data (including destination and location) plus Google identity seems pretty egregious to me.

Anyway, the emailed notice is easy to overlook as just another policy update that you wouldn’t do anything about. But you can opt out.

At https://fi.google.com/account, go to “Privacy & security”, and deselect “Allow CPNI sharing”. It’s not in the Fi app; you have to do it in a browser.

  • baduhaiEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Yeah it does. GDPR applies for EU citizens regardless of where they are. It’s why every website in the fucking world has a cookie banner now. An EU citizen could register for Fi service with a VPN and a mailbox at a UPS store and Google’s handling of their data would be subject to GDPR.

    Maybe the EU says the GDPR applies to all EU citizens regardless of where they are, but that doesn’t matter. ox at a UPS store and Google’s handling of their data would be subject to GDPR.

    Maybe the EU says the GDPR applies to all EU citizens regardless of where they are, but that doesn’t matter. They only have the right to enforce the GDPR within their jurisdiction, regardless of where a EU citizen is.