&gt; <i>It&#x27;s just their policy not to use that data when using machine learning and whatnot to get a result out of it.</i><p>So Google is like a child that wants to eat candy, <i>has candy</i>, but doesn&#x27;t eat it?<p><i>Of course</i> they&#x27;re using all the data they can, to the extent they can.<p>They&#x27;re just telling us there&#x27;s no reason to worry, while they feed their data to the NSA&#x27;s surveillance machinery etc.<p>You see, Google is not the only &quot;child with candy&quot;. Then there&#x27;s the US government, and <i>that kid</i> has a ravenous appetite.