Cnbc Google Knows Everywhere You Go
Desire to freak yourself out? I'one thousand going to show only how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about yous without you even realising it.
Google knows where yous've been
Google stores your location (if you lot have location tracking turned on) every time yous turn on your phone. Y'all can see a timeline of where you've been from the very first day you started using Google on your phone.
Click on this link to see your own information: google.com/maps/timeline?…
Here is every identify I take been in the last 12 months in Ireland. Y'all can see the fourth dimension of day that I was in the location and how long it took me to get to that location from my previous one.
Google knows everything yous've always searched – and deleted
Google stores search history across all your devices. That can mean that, fifty-fifty if you delete your search history and phone history on one device, it may all the same have information saved from other devices.
Click on this link to encounter your own data: myactivity.google.com/myactivity
Google has an advert profile of yous
Google creates an advertisement profile based on your data, including your location, gender, age, hobbies, career, interests, human relationship status, possible weight (need to lose 10lb in i day?) and income.
Click on this link to see your ain information: google.com/settings/ads/
Google knows all the apps yous use
Google stores information on every app and extension you use. They know how often you use them, where yous use them, and who you use them to interact with. That means they know who yous talk to on Facebook, what countries are you speaking with, what fourth dimension you go to sleep.
Click on this link to encounter your ain information: security.google.com/settings/secur…
Google has all of your YouTube history
Google stores all of your YouTube history, so they probably know whether you're going to be a parent before long, if you lot're a conservative, if y'all're a progressive, if you lot're Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, if you're feeling depressed or suicidal, if you're anorexic …
Click on this link to meet your own data: youtube.com/feed/history/s…
The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents
Google offers an selection to download all of the data it stores most you. I've requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.
This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you've taken on your phone, the businesses you've bought from, the products you've bought through Google …
They also have data from your calendar, your Google hangout sessions, your location history, the music you listen to, the Google books you lot've purchased, the Google groups you're in, the websites y'all've created, the phones you've owned, the pages yous've shared, how many steps you walk in a day …
Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/takeout
Facebook has reams and reams of data on you, too
Facebook offers a similar option to download all your information. Mine was roughly 600MB, which is roughly 400,000 Word documents.
This includes every message you lot've ever sent or been sent, every file y'all've ever sent or been sent, all the contacts in your phone, and all the audio letters yous've always sent or been sent.
Click here to see your information: https://world wide web.facebook.com/help/131112897028467
Facebook stores everything from your stickers to your login location
Facebook also stores what it thinks you might be interested in based off the things you've liked and what you and your friends talk virtually (I apparently like the topic "girl").
Somewhat pointlessly, they also store all the stickers you've always sent on Facebook (I have no idea why they practise this. Information technology's just a joke at this stage).
They also store every time you log in to Facebook, where you logged in from, what fourth dimension, and from what device.
And they store all the applications you've always had connected to your Facebook account, so they can guess I'm interested in politics and web and graphic design, that I was single between X and Y period with the installation of Tinder, and I got a HTC phone in November.
(Side note, if you take Windows ten installed, this is a picture of just the privacy options with 16 unlike sub-menus, which accept all of the options enabled past default when you lot install Windows 10)
They tin access your webcam and microphone
The data they collect includes tracking where yous are, what applications you lot have installed, when y'all apply them, what yous employ them for, admission to your webcam and microphone at any time, your contacts, your emails, your calendar, your call history, the letters yous send and receive, the files you download, the games you play, your photos and videos, your music, your search history, your browsing history, even what radio stations y'all listen to.
Here are some of the different means Google gets your data
I got the Google Takeout certificate with all my information, and this is a breakup of all the dissimilar ways they get your data.
Here's the search history certificate, which has xc,000 different entries, even showing the images I downloaded and the websites I accessed (I showed the Pirate Bay section to show how much harm this information tin can do).
Google knows which events you attended, and when
Here's my Google Calendar broken down, showing all the events I've always added, whether I actually attended them, and what fourth dimension I attended them at (this part is when I went for an interview for a marketing job, and what fourth dimension I arrived).
And Google has information you deleted
This is my Google Drive, which includes files I explicitly deleted including my résumé, my monthly upkeep, and all the code, files and websites I've ever made, and fifty-fifty my PGP private key, which I deleted, that I utilize to encrypt emails.
Google tin can know your conditioning routine
This is my Google Fit, which shows all of the steps I've e'er taken, any time I walked anywhere, and all the times I've recorded any meditation/yoga/workouts I've done (I deleted this information and revoked Google Fit's permissions).
And they accept years' worth of photos
This is all the photos ever taken with my phone, broken down past year, and includes metadata of when and where I took the photos
Google has every electronic mail you e'er sent
Every email I've e'er sent, that'southward been sent to me, including the ones I deleted or were categorised as spam.
And there is more
I'll simply practice a brusque summary of what's in the thousands of files I received nether my Google Activeness.
Get-go, every Google Ad I've ever viewed or clicked on, every app I've always launched or used and when I did it, every website I've always visited and what time I did information technology at, and every app I've e'er installed or searched for.
They besides have every image I've ever searched for and saved, every location I've e'er searched for or clicked on, every news article I've ever searched for or read, and every single Google search I've fabricated since 2009. And and so finally, every YouTube video I've always searched for or viewed, since 2008.
This information has millions of nefarious uses. Y'all say yous're non a terrorist. Then how come you were googling Isis? Work at Google and you lot're suspicious of your wife? Perfect, just wait upwards her location and search history for the terminal x years. Manage to proceeds admission to someone's Google account? Perfect, you have a chronological diary of everything that person has washed for the last 10 years.
This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on united states. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves considering – to hell with it! – I desire to watch cute domestic dog videos.
A caption was corrected on 28 March 2018 to replace "privacy options in Facebook" with "privacy options in Windows 10".
- Dylan Curran is a data consultant and web developer, who does all-encompassing research into spreading technical awareness and improving digital etiquette
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
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