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I booked a trip to San Francisco to attend a niece's wedding. Departure is next week. Last month, September, I booked from my laptop by going directly on Delta.com, did not book through or even search flights through google.
Last week I went on Delta from my workstation at the office, checked in, selected seats, and created a PDF of the itinerary then emailed it to my gmail acct so I could have it on my phone. The other day I get a notification on my android phone. It says that google maps has downloaded maps for my upcoming trip, to wit: it downloaded San Francisco area maps.
I knew they crawl gmail inboxes to gather marketing data, it's covered in the user agreement. But I didn't think they were robo parsing file attachments. The subj line of the email I left blank as well as the body, just a blank email with the file attachment named "itinerary.pdf"
I'm trying to remember and I can't remember any real time foot prints I'd left connected to google about the trip other than emailing the itinerary from my work email (non-google local hosted) to my gmail acct. I did save the itinerary pdf file to my phone's download storage. I have paid version of malware bytes running on phone and don't think the pdf on my phone storage could be accessed, so I'm pinning it on google crawling my cloud inbox and parsing that pdf file.
Last week I went on Delta from my workstation at the office, checked in, selected seats, and created a PDF of the itinerary then emailed it to my gmail acct so I could have it on my phone. The other day I get a notification on my android phone. It says that google maps has downloaded maps for my upcoming trip, to wit: it downloaded San Francisco area maps.
I knew they crawl gmail inboxes to gather marketing data, it's covered in the user agreement. But I didn't think they were robo parsing file attachments. The subj line of the email I left blank as well as the body, just a blank email with the file attachment named "itinerary.pdf"
I'm trying to remember and I can't remember any real time foot prints I'd left connected to google about the trip other than emailing the itinerary from my work email (non-google local hosted) to my gmail acct. I did save the itinerary pdf file to my phone's download storage. I have paid version of malware bytes running on phone and don't think the pdf on my phone storage could be accessed, so I'm pinning it on google crawling my cloud inbox and parsing that pdf file.