Thanks to purchasing receipts sent to your personal Gmail account, Google is quietly keeping track of every purchase you have made in years. According to a report in CNBC on Friday, the information is made available to users via a private web tool which, the company claims, keeps your data private. The revelation comes from seeing a (relatively) new Google Account page that lets you view every purchase that Google has stored, which rightfully bothers some who didn't realize this was something Google was collecting; or, at least in this much detail.

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However, Google stressed it does not use the information for personalized ad tracking. In 2017, the tech giant said it would stop using data collected from Gmail messages to personalize ads. "To help you easily view and keep track of your purchases, bookings and subscriptions in one place, we've created a private destination that can only be seen by you," Google told The Verge in a statement.

Google, however, did not say how long this web tool has been active. Honestly, it’s no surprise that Google’s machines can read your email. But it’s hard to understand on what planet the company thought maintaining a hidden away page that catalogs your retail activity there would read as anything but creepy and invasive. There’s no easy way to delete that history, other than deleting receipts from your email or ticking through them one at a time on your Purchase page.

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