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google doesn't sell or share your personal information to anyone. Its a huge distinction.



> google doesn't sell or share your personal information to anyone [sic]

The article is about Google sharing someone's private searches with the police.


TFA is about Google being ordered to share information to police, by a (currently) legal court order. There's no call for [sic] in your quotation of GP.


GP said Google doesn't share personal information with anyone. That's not true. The article shows them sharing it with someone. The point isn't pedantic when one of their competitors, DuckDuckGo, literally can't--court order or not.

My use of sic erat scriptum means I'm quoting GP, grammatical errors and all. This point, in contrast to the previous one, is pedantic :). (One doesn't share information to someone, but with them. "Google doesn't sell your personal information to, nor share it with, anyone" or "Google doesn't sell or share your personal information" are more correct.)

[1] https://duckduckgo.com


The only reason they don't share it to anyone is that "anyone" is their competition.




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