Google Now now SLURPS data from 40 third party apps so YOU don't have to
Found on The Register on Saturday, 31 January 2015
The firm said in a blog post on Friday that it would begin slurping the data from inside a number of apps for its Google Now service – a creepy, predictive search tech that Mountain View first unveiled in 2012.
Terms of the financial deals struck with the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, Duolingo, Pandora and the Guardian newspaper were kept secret.
The "do no evil" mantra has been thrown overboard long ago. Google is not different than any other spyware company these days.