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>SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

>We may share your personal information with:

>Third-party vendors and other service providers that perform services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for us, which may include identifying and serving targeted advertisements(...)

>Other companies whose products or services may be of interest to you

...

That sounds pretty bad even if it wasn't so vague. This is a bloody premium service...



If they log in as you to a third-party website (e.g. so they can change your calendar as in one of the examples), that information could be used by the third party to serve you targeted ads.

For example, if you ask them to get your Macbook fixed, and put a reminder in your calendar for when it's ready, that may result in you being served Apple ads.


That's one way to interpret it, no doubt. But as I said, the vagueness is a part of the problem (as I see it anyway).




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