On: Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

[bassman9000]

You're missing the point, and I would downvote you if I could.

Google is accumulating data coming from purchases on 3rd party services, without having asked you to do so. You may be fine with that, some people are not, and on top of that, disabling that behavior and deleting the already accumulated data is difficult, or impossible. That's what the article is about.

[gerash → bassman9000]

The ones I mentioned (cc card, bank, TurboTax, etc.) are all data on third party services too.

[luckylion → gerash]

I don't know how banks in the US work. Do they give you "helpful messages" about what you can do with the stuff you bought at $shop?

Also, banks and credit card companies are highly regulated. Google is not. I guess it should be.