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“Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used.” This is one of Google’s two “unequivocal” policies.
How does this hold up when Google IS selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?
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This is actually a good question. With the usual restrictions on the sale of data, what happens if a complete company gets sold? Does selling your whole company let you sidestep restrictions on selling customer data?
Usually… it’s usually best to read the privacy policy and user agreement. Almost all of them basically say that they can do whatever they want and that you waive your right to sue in court.
They aren’t third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don’t like it, don’t continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.
Transferring data is not the same thing thing as selling data. Your data is being transferred, the money exchanged is for the servers, not for the data.
While this is the technicality they’ll die on, the value of the data in the transfer was 100% taken into account in this deal.
That doesn’t hold up.
That’s like when you buy a sticker and the ounce of weed just “comes with it”. The money is for the sticker, not the weed. If your concern is who has your data, whether it was sold alone or as part of some other purchase doesn’t matter.