The Internet Is In Shock After This Guy’s Post Reveals How Much Facebook And Google Knows About You
Most of us likely have that nagging feeling that all the entertainment and convenience that we get online and take for granted must be paid for somehow. We know that companies like Facebook and Google collect our data, and it gets used to target us better for advertising. So what? I can just ignore the ads anyway, can’t I? I have nothing to hide!
But it goes deeper than that. Much deeper. The Cambridge Analytica Scandal may prove to be the catalyst, the event that finally wakes us up to the ways that we can be manipulated, duped and held to ransom for the sheer amount of data that is held about us. This scandal has opened the door for a wider discussion about data collection and its often nefarious uses, and it is leading many people to confront some uncomfortable truths.
Irish IT expert Dylan Curran started a Twitter thread recently, which has since gone viral, in which he exposed the extent of Facebook and Google’s Data archives on him. “The Facebook archive was 600mb, roughly 400,000 Word documents,” he wrote in New Statesman. “The Google archive was 5.5gb, roughly 3m Word documents.”
That is a shitload of data. Facebook’s dump includes all of your sent and received messages, login locations, and even non-Facebook-related text messages and phone call history. Facebook are the “drug addicts of data, squeezing every last drop from the needle before they move on to the next one,” Curran said.
Google appears to go even further. They keep track of everything, even searches and emails that you have deleted. In fact they almost certainly know more about you then you do yourself.
This data builds a complete picture of us, and can be used against us in countless ways. While you may think you have nothing to hide, do you really want somebody reading your messages and emails? Looking at your photos and videos? Knowing exactly where you were at specific times? Imagine one day you are running for office, or you have a jealous ex. Perhaps you know a little too much about shadowy government operations and they want to blackmail you. With this data, they can. And we have willingly offered up all this about ourselves, in exchange for the convenience and fun these services can provide.
Edward Snowden called it “an exquisite breakdown using real-life examples of how @Facebook and @Google exploited your trust to quietly create a decade-long dossier of your most private activities. With a bonus: how to download a copy of your own.”
So yes, these things that are ostensibly provided for ‘free’ are, of course, not free at all. We all knew this before, but now we know exactly the price that we are paying. Are they worth it? You be the judge.
Dylan Curran has become a sort of a whistleblower online, starting a Twitter thread that exposes Google and Facebook’s use of our data
Dylan was shocked that this is news to people
And he’s planning to continue to spread the word
People had some legit questions
Others seemed a bit shook
Some just had a good laugh
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Share on FacebookThis was not a surprise for me. I have always known that everything I do online and offline will be stored somewhere. I just wonder why the cops have not yet come to get me because I have googled plenty of information about various recreational drugs (even though I have only used alcohol), I have found and read information how to make bombs and I have downloaded huge amounts of pirated anime, porn and movies when I was younger. With my search history I would probably be a huge criminal.
Same here, I seriously do not understand the hype. It's not like they hide it. You visit one website with wedding dresses (random example) and for the next 3 weeks half the adds they show you are somehow related to weddings, so how can you miss those queues??? As for "incriminating" data, I think they don't 'rat us out' for customer satisfaction, cause if they did some smarties woulda found or created an alternative.
Load More Replies...The only thing this scandal exposes is the depth of human stupidity. You are using a FREE product which requires huge resources to run, to be developed, etc. Where did you think the money came from? This post itself has 160 FACEBOOK SHARES. How many of "outraged" ask themselves what data is boredpanda collecting when commenting.
I was just about to say the same thing, but then I saw your comment. Spot on mate, spot on! My guess is that a lot of people think they are entitled to use Google's services for free and that's the reason for all this outrage at the collected data. Plus there is a very very simple solution for this. Stop using those services. Stop searching the Internet using Google, stop watching videos using Youtube, stop posting on Facebook, buy a regular a*s phone or don't create a Google Account in order to access the Play store and so on. People want their data deleted but they STILL want to use these services :)) You know what would be funny, to see all the outraged people if Google and/or Facebook would add a monthly subscription fee in order to use their services; and considering the amounts of money they are making from adds, that would be a hefty fee.
Load More Replies...Wait, people thought their info WASN'T being disseminated in order to be monetized? Caveat Emptor.
Actually, your admonition should be "Productum Cave" (Let the product beware)
Load More Replies...The thing is you all have agreed to this by SKIPPING TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Yeah, or otherwise you wouldn't be able to use it. The same is with cookies. Now they tell you they need your permission, or otherwise you can go. And since everyting needs cookies and permissions and terms..... You wouldn't have any internet left if you refused it all.
Load More Replies...Oh my god the sites people use to share every detail about their lives keeps information about every detail about their lives!
That’s not true. Searching for a new gynecologist on Google, or looking up a book about the Middle East on Amazon etc are not things people do to share information about their lives, and yet this info is still stored. Read the article.
Load More Replies...i stopped using facebook 7 years ago and was instantly happier for it. mind you i left because of the passive aggressive family and friends comment i saw all the fking time but things like this have just completely reinforced my choice.
That won’t protect you from the vast majority of stuff mentioned in this article.
Load More Replies...I wanna say, when you download and sign up for ANY OF THIS, they DO SAY THEY WILL DO THIS, you have been warned, if people are too stupid to read the terms then they deserve to be "freaked out" by this logic I actually willingly download and put all my stuff on this, basically to show I AM WHO I SAY I AM and I like the benefit of how much it helps me with my short-term memory, Cant remember where you went? ask google, down know wut happened the other day? ask facebook, If you dont want anything on the net, put anything on it, dont download google, dont use it dont uses facebook or any other "Personal" sites, as for knowing where you are, anything using wifi will know where you are, go live in a dead zone or dont use wifi or net
What is your point exactly, besides letting us know about your short-term memory issues? :) We've already established that vast majority of us don't read "the terms". (you wrote something about those terms in your first paragraph, which I don't quite understand... Oh well :D Tbh, I'm more concerned about people freaking out... Like where have they been all this time, until this Dylan person had opened their eyes? I'm not sure, but I think that my informations wouldn't be interesting to anyone, not even me. :p
Load More Replies...I've never searched for any dental care, but once I was at work and had my phone in my pocket while a mate told me something about my teeth (he was wondering how could I not have them yellower being a smoker). I replied something "my mum always tells me I should have them whitened" and suddenly, for the next few days, all adds where about that. Scary. If you want privacy, leave the phone in another room.
It's creepy but at the same time I don't really mind(?). Idk how to explain but it's like I've always known everything I do online was saved somewhere and I do live by the quote 'nothing remains a secret' or something from my mother tongue. Not sure if it translates well in english.
I think that in that saying nothing is lost in translation. :)
Load More Replies...So I guess all the memorised passwords are stored as well...
THANK YOU DYLAN CURRAN!!! NOTE!!!! One thing you CAN do to at least not let them have the data on your searches!!! DONT USE GOOGLE SEARCH!! USE DUCKDUCKGO.COM They NEVER track or keep your search data, AND, its a better search engine!!!
And linux, and independent companies for mail services, etc. Duckduckgo is great!!!!
Load More Replies...In those "terms and conditions" which nobody's reading, says that they DO NOT keeping our passwords. Besides that, I don't know anything about this. :/
Load More Replies...GDPR should make it very easy for people to request the info a company knows about them, and also for that info to be deleted. You'll see all the big companies come out with features like this, or they could face fines of up to 4% of their global revenue or €20m, whichever is higher. They have until 25 May to comply. Your company doesn't have to be located in EU to be affected, only your customers have to.
Dylan, in point number 15, so, tell us, what does your name say about you? (Since you clearly took that quiz =D)
I did the same, I only remember that it was stupid. :p
Load More Replies...I don't understand how this is making the news. They've been watching your s**t for at least a decade AND YOU AGREED TO IT BY DOWNLOADING THE APP AND HITTING ACCEPT TO THE TERMS. Better watch out y'all Verizon keeps all your texts and calls, lets flip out about that next!
I'm sorry but just for signing up to use a computer or phone service should not mean I or you agree to this. There is this funny thing in the Constitution called right to PRIVACY. As soon as I heard that Verizon was involved with exchanging call info with the government I cancelled my subscription. If everyone did this there wouldn't be any of this nonsense going on but people are pathetic pussies who go "oh, well what can you do"? Chump put yur money where yur mouth is!
Load More Replies...internet is sponsored by ads. The way they do it is by knowing what users click. If you want free (and GOOD!) internet, you will have to give away a bit of your privacy. Or lets go back to 2001 where you paid for Maps, Navigation, Software to integrate contacts, each and every app, updates on your phone, etc etc etc
Not at all. If you use facebook, chrome, google, etc. of course but there are other options. Most of them work much better! Those big companies, as google, are made to uninformed and closedbrained people only.
Load More Replies...i want to give thanks to God and give hope to people who are diagnosed with Hiv i never believed I will be free from Hiv takings a whole lot of drugs, going to government hospital taking drugs, but in all we are not free from the virus i kept on living with the virus for about 3 years, i suffered rejection and i was ashamed, you know Hiv there's really a cure i saw an article of various testimony online about this herbal doctor called DR Godwin i contacted him and this healer shipped me a cure i tried this and it first started with my CD4 my CD4 improved by weeks i finished the herbal medication and now am free from this virus, friends and i say again traditional remedies are the real cure, there is a cure for hiv and other disease contact this herbal doctor that cured me if you do not want to live with your virus forever his whatsapp number +2348089906968 or Email drgodwinharbs@gmail.com He also cure different diseases like Herpes Diabetes Copd Cancer Hpv hsv-1 and HSV-2 Etc Save liv
Hmmm.. but the Parkland Shooter got to where he was going... leaving all these bread crumbs behind. How dangerous it is to care more about collecting my information for advertising purposes only. Ming boggling.
wow they know all this and still send me stupid baby stuff like diapers advertisements? Really? :D
WHO WRITES YOUR TITLES? I"M SICK OF IT, WRITE BETTER AND PUNCTUATE TOO!
I hate when you visit a webstore, advertisements for a product you looked at then start to show up on every website you go on after that. They're tracking your interests! So here's a tip: don't view any taboo products if using a shared computer. Cuz if you're shopping for condoms or something, everyone else using the computer will know, because they will see ads for it on all the websites they go on (I assume)! Scary! Luckily nothing bad like this has happened to me. I just shop for clothes.
Why does this still surprise people? This has been happening since internet happened......
Here's how many times Google has given information for warrants https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?user_requests_report_period=authority:US
This was planned the very moment Google purchased DejaNews (Deja.com) in 2000-2002. That's history now, but you must learn history to know what the future is holding for us.
The moment Google purchased DejaNews (Deja.com) in 2000-2002, everything was planned to end in what Google is today. The 500 million articles Deja had then, now amount to thousand of millions of individualized personal data and trillions of web pages.
1984, anyone? It’s not a surprise that this is happening, just that everyone peacefully ignores it. My thought process used to be that I’m only one individual of billions, so I have nothing to worry about as an individual, but then I remembered the phrase “If you say you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide, that’s like saying you don’t care about the freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
Exactly! We must at least appreciate Mr Orwell, we don't need to love him. :)
Load More Replies...There's just one thing we all have to realize and admit: If the service (Facebook, Google, Bored Panda) is free, then we are not customers - we are the product that's being sold to those who pay... That's just market logic.
How do people not even know this? Look up something on google, let's say: a vacation resort and next week you'll get ads about that vacation resort... Buy something from an online shop and you'll get similar ads for the other week... Last week I was checking the Maps app on my phone and while I never use it to go to my family, it listed my moms and grandparents house as "regularly visited locations". Nothing is for free... We pay for google and facebook with our own data. (not to mention, some people post everything about their lives on social media anyway) If you'd really wanna stay off the grid, you might as well toss your phone, pc,... away, stop using the internet, stop using modern cars,... Might as well stay off the street because cameras are everywhere too.
Really, your exercise is nice, but I wished you would have applied it to all the "darkwebs" that exist, such as childporn and radicalism.
I think it'd be hard to get data on that. People using the 'darkweb' tend to do stuff with more care (hide themselves better - I know some serious tech geeks at university who played around with finding illegal stuff online to prove they could). I would love to know that information though, I hope they get the info soon, great point!
Load More Replies...Thank you for exposing this, Dylan, I hope more people will listen now. I have told my friends this a hundred times, but they won't believe how much of their personal information is stored and owned (sic!) by Google and Facebook. Hope this wakes up people!
And then what? Seriously though, I'm not sure what would/should have to change?
Load More Replies...I´ve changed computers, phones, emails and gmails during the last 10 years, what happens then? a new storage of you or the same?
In google, You can turn off location history, and There does exist an option to delete all your personal data, search preferences and all the rest. I have done that a few times. Not sure about facebook, I had deleted my account + data long ago.
Load More Replies...Shouldn't this be illegal? And how long has google and facebook doing this anyway? Why isn't anyone doing something about this? I guess you can't trust the government...
This is an out rage IMHO!! I am sick and tired of this invasion of my privacy!!
Eh, I tried the google map timeline and it doesn't show last years very public trip to Disney and out of the country. I would love for it to actually do the job this guy is claiming it does.
Well I'm not shocked even a bit.. Google Facebook or whatsoever you are using all are applications. Apps STORES our each and every DATA and even SHARES between interrelated apps. So what's so new in that. Sometime we had to check our historical information for some reason and what new in storing your viwed videos in YouTube or wherever? If you don't want to share your information then just don't use Facebook or YouTube or anything like Google apps on your phones. Easy!!
Google also buys companies you already are dealing with and then makes you attach your already existing relationship with that company to Google. Don't like it? Tough. That's really s****y when it's a program that's unique but necessary to a particular field so there's not really any good competition to leave for. Google's moto was "Don't be Evil". Right. Remember this stuff?: https://tinyurl.com/hb8ylo5
For dead relatives don't you just need their phone to get the password? If phone's locked the line should be able to be renewed. Has to be a way 'cause some of us have digital 'assets' tied to our accounts.
I don't know why i'm still shocked that there are people who do not know that. Think about more. If one day these two and food chains and banks join forces, were are all dead. Just think that your local supermarket can tell about the same amount of your character as google, because they know what you buy, when, how often, your whole diet and more. There is no hiding... Black side of the moon? Shall we go?
Some stores already work with an app and a card that you use when shopping. If you do that, they already know what and when you buy something, how often you buy it...
Load More Replies...This was not a surprise for me. I have always known that everything I do online and offline will be stored somewhere. I just wonder why the cops have not yet come to get me because I have googled plenty of information about various recreational drugs (even though I have only used alcohol), I have found and read information how to make bombs and I have downloaded huge amounts of pirated anime, porn and movies when I was younger. With my search history I would probably be a huge criminal.
Same here, I seriously do not understand the hype. It's not like they hide it. You visit one website with wedding dresses (random example) and for the next 3 weeks half the adds they show you are somehow related to weddings, so how can you miss those queues??? As for "incriminating" data, I think they don't 'rat us out' for customer satisfaction, cause if they did some smarties woulda found or created an alternative.
Load More Replies...The only thing this scandal exposes is the depth of human stupidity. You are using a FREE product which requires huge resources to run, to be developed, etc. Where did you think the money came from? This post itself has 160 FACEBOOK SHARES. How many of "outraged" ask themselves what data is boredpanda collecting when commenting.
I was just about to say the same thing, but then I saw your comment. Spot on mate, spot on! My guess is that a lot of people think they are entitled to use Google's services for free and that's the reason for all this outrage at the collected data. Plus there is a very very simple solution for this. Stop using those services. Stop searching the Internet using Google, stop watching videos using Youtube, stop posting on Facebook, buy a regular a*s phone or don't create a Google Account in order to access the Play store and so on. People want their data deleted but they STILL want to use these services :)) You know what would be funny, to see all the outraged people if Google and/or Facebook would add a monthly subscription fee in order to use their services; and considering the amounts of money they are making from adds, that would be a hefty fee.
Load More Replies...Wait, people thought their info WASN'T being disseminated in order to be monetized? Caveat Emptor.
Actually, your admonition should be "Productum Cave" (Let the product beware)
Load More Replies...The thing is you all have agreed to this by SKIPPING TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Yeah, or otherwise you wouldn't be able to use it. The same is with cookies. Now they tell you they need your permission, or otherwise you can go. And since everyting needs cookies and permissions and terms..... You wouldn't have any internet left if you refused it all.
Load More Replies...Oh my god the sites people use to share every detail about their lives keeps information about every detail about their lives!
That’s not true. Searching for a new gynecologist on Google, or looking up a book about the Middle East on Amazon etc are not things people do to share information about their lives, and yet this info is still stored. Read the article.
Load More Replies...i stopped using facebook 7 years ago and was instantly happier for it. mind you i left because of the passive aggressive family and friends comment i saw all the fking time but things like this have just completely reinforced my choice.
That won’t protect you from the vast majority of stuff mentioned in this article.
Load More Replies...I wanna say, when you download and sign up for ANY OF THIS, they DO SAY THEY WILL DO THIS, you have been warned, if people are too stupid to read the terms then they deserve to be "freaked out" by this logic I actually willingly download and put all my stuff on this, basically to show I AM WHO I SAY I AM and I like the benefit of how much it helps me with my short-term memory, Cant remember where you went? ask google, down know wut happened the other day? ask facebook, If you dont want anything on the net, put anything on it, dont download google, dont use it dont uses facebook or any other "Personal" sites, as for knowing where you are, anything using wifi will know where you are, go live in a dead zone or dont use wifi or net
What is your point exactly, besides letting us know about your short-term memory issues? :) We've already established that vast majority of us don't read "the terms". (you wrote something about those terms in your first paragraph, which I don't quite understand... Oh well :D Tbh, I'm more concerned about people freaking out... Like where have they been all this time, until this Dylan person had opened their eyes? I'm not sure, but I think that my informations wouldn't be interesting to anyone, not even me. :p
Load More Replies...I've never searched for any dental care, but once I was at work and had my phone in my pocket while a mate told me something about my teeth (he was wondering how could I not have them yellower being a smoker). I replied something "my mum always tells me I should have them whitened" and suddenly, for the next few days, all adds where about that. Scary. If you want privacy, leave the phone in another room.
It's creepy but at the same time I don't really mind(?). Idk how to explain but it's like I've always known everything I do online was saved somewhere and I do live by the quote 'nothing remains a secret' or something from my mother tongue. Not sure if it translates well in english.
I think that in that saying nothing is lost in translation. :)
Load More Replies...So I guess all the memorised passwords are stored as well...
THANK YOU DYLAN CURRAN!!! NOTE!!!! One thing you CAN do to at least not let them have the data on your searches!!! DONT USE GOOGLE SEARCH!! USE DUCKDUCKGO.COM They NEVER track or keep your search data, AND, its a better search engine!!!
And linux, and independent companies for mail services, etc. Duckduckgo is great!!!!
Load More Replies...In those "terms and conditions" which nobody's reading, says that they DO NOT keeping our passwords. Besides that, I don't know anything about this. :/
Load More Replies...GDPR should make it very easy for people to request the info a company knows about them, and also for that info to be deleted. You'll see all the big companies come out with features like this, or they could face fines of up to 4% of their global revenue or €20m, whichever is higher. They have until 25 May to comply. Your company doesn't have to be located in EU to be affected, only your customers have to.
Dylan, in point number 15, so, tell us, what does your name say about you? (Since you clearly took that quiz =D)
I did the same, I only remember that it was stupid. :p
Load More Replies...I don't understand how this is making the news. They've been watching your s**t for at least a decade AND YOU AGREED TO IT BY DOWNLOADING THE APP AND HITTING ACCEPT TO THE TERMS. Better watch out y'all Verizon keeps all your texts and calls, lets flip out about that next!
I'm sorry but just for signing up to use a computer or phone service should not mean I or you agree to this. There is this funny thing in the Constitution called right to PRIVACY. As soon as I heard that Verizon was involved with exchanging call info with the government I cancelled my subscription. If everyone did this there wouldn't be any of this nonsense going on but people are pathetic pussies who go "oh, well what can you do"? Chump put yur money where yur mouth is!
Load More Replies...internet is sponsored by ads. The way they do it is by knowing what users click. If you want free (and GOOD!) internet, you will have to give away a bit of your privacy. Or lets go back to 2001 where you paid for Maps, Navigation, Software to integrate contacts, each and every app, updates on your phone, etc etc etc
Not at all. If you use facebook, chrome, google, etc. of course but there are other options. Most of them work much better! Those big companies, as google, are made to uninformed and closedbrained people only.
Load More Replies...i want to give thanks to God and give hope to people who are diagnosed with Hiv i never believed I will be free from Hiv takings a whole lot of drugs, going to government hospital taking drugs, but in all we are not free from the virus i kept on living with the virus for about 3 years, i suffered rejection and i was ashamed, you know Hiv there's really a cure i saw an article of various testimony online about this herbal doctor called DR Godwin i contacted him and this healer shipped me a cure i tried this and it first started with my CD4 my CD4 improved by weeks i finished the herbal medication and now am free from this virus, friends and i say again traditional remedies are the real cure, there is a cure for hiv and other disease contact this herbal doctor that cured me if you do not want to live with your virus forever his whatsapp number +2348089906968 or Email drgodwinharbs@gmail.com He also cure different diseases like Herpes Diabetes Copd Cancer Hpv hsv-1 and HSV-2 Etc Save liv
Hmmm.. but the Parkland Shooter got to where he was going... leaving all these bread crumbs behind. How dangerous it is to care more about collecting my information for advertising purposes only. Ming boggling.
wow they know all this and still send me stupid baby stuff like diapers advertisements? Really? :D
WHO WRITES YOUR TITLES? I"M SICK OF IT, WRITE BETTER AND PUNCTUATE TOO!
I hate when you visit a webstore, advertisements for a product you looked at then start to show up on every website you go on after that. They're tracking your interests! So here's a tip: don't view any taboo products if using a shared computer. Cuz if you're shopping for condoms or something, everyone else using the computer will know, because they will see ads for it on all the websites they go on (I assume)! Scary! Luckily nothing bad like this has happened to me. I just shop for clothes.
Why does this still surprise people? This has been happening since internet happened......
Here's how many times Google has given information for warrants https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?user_requests_report_period=authority:US
This was planned the very moment Google purchased DejaNews (Deja.com) in 2000-2002. That's history now, but you must learn history to know what the future is holding for us.
The moment Google purchased DejaNews (Deja.com) in 2000-2002, everything was planned to end in what Google is today. The 500 million articles Deja had then, now amount to thousand of millions of individualized personal data and trillions of web pages.
1984, anyone? It’s not a surprise that this is happening, just that everyone peacefully ignores it. My thought process used to be that I’m only one individual of billions, so I have nothing to worry about as an individual, but then I remembered the phrase “If you say you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide, that’s like saying you don’t care about the freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
Exactly! We must at least appreciate Mr Orwell, we don't need to love him. :)
Load More Replies...There's just one thing we all have to realize and admit: If the service (Facebook, Google, Bored Panda) is free, then we are not customers - we are the product that's being sold to those who pay... That's just market logic.
How do people not even know this? Look up something on google, let's say: a vacation resort and next week you'll get ads about that vacation resort... Buy something from an online shop and you'll get similar ads for the other week... Last week I was checking the Maps app on my phone and while I never use it to go to my family, it listed my moms and grandparents house as "regularly visited locations". Nothing is for free... We pay for google and facebook with our own data. (not to mention, some people post everything about their lives on social media anyway) If you'd really wanna stay off the grid, you might as well toss your phone, pc,... away, stop using the internet, stop using modern cars,... Might as well stay off the street because cameras are everywhere too.
Really, your exercise is nice, but I wished you would have applied it to all the "darkwebs" that exist, such as childporn and radicalism.
I think it'd be hard to get data on that. People using the 'darkweb' tend to do stuff with more care (hide themselves better - I know some serious tech geeks at university who played around with finding illegal stuff online to prove they could). I would love to know that information though, I hope they get the info soon, great point!
Load More Replies...Thank you for exposing this, Dylan, I hope more people will listen now. I have told my friends this a hundred times, but they won't believe how much of their personal information is stored and owned (sic!) by Google and Facebook. Hope this wakes up people!
And then what? Seriously though, I'm not sure what would/should have to change?
Load More Replies...I´ve changed computers, phones, emails and gmails during the last 10 years, what happens then? a new storage of you or the same?
In google, You can turn off location history, and There does exist an option to delete all your personal data, search preferences and all the rest. I have done that a few times. Not sure about facebook, I had deleted my account + data long ago.
Load More Replies...Shouldn't this be illegal? And how long has google and facebook doing this anyway? Why isn't anyone doing something about this? I guess you can't trust the government...
This is an out rage IMHO!! I am sick and tired of this invasion of my privacy!!
Eh, I tried the google map timeline and it doesn't show last years very public trip to Disney and out of the country. I would love for it to actually do the job this guy is claiming it does.
Well I'm not shocked even a bit.. Google Facebook or whatsoever you are using all are applications. Apps STORES our each and every DATA and even SHARES between interrelated apps. So what's so new in that. Sometime we had to check our historical information for some reason and what new in storing your viwed videos in YouTube or wherever? If you don't want to share your information then just don't use Facebook or YouTube or anything like Google apps on your phones. Easy!!
Google also buys companies you already are dealing with and then makes you attach your already existing relationship with that company to Google. Don't like it? Tough. That's really s****y when it's a program that's unique but necessary to a particular field so there's not really any good competition to leave for. Google's moto was "Don't be Evil". Right. Remember this stuff?: https://tinyurl.com/hb8ylo5
For dead relatives don't you just need their phone to get the password? If phone's locked the line should be able to be renewed. Has to be a way 'cause some of us have digital 'assets' tied to our accounts.
I don't know why i'm still shocked that there are people who do not know that. Think about more. If one day these two and food chains and banks join forces, were are all dead. Just think that your local supermarket can tell about the same amount of your character as google, because they know what you buy, when, how often, your whole diet and more. There is no hiding... Black side of the moon? Shall we go?
Some stores already work with an app and a card that you use when shopping. If you do that, they already know what and when you buy something, how often you buy it...
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