Re Google Chrome.
I have GC not the disease, and use it when my provider gets really slow and view UTube videos.
I didn’t give out my GC email address to anyone.
After a few months, my neighbor suddenly became a friend. I never used GC mail to contact her. She, also, has a secondary GC email address, and she never sent an email to my GC email acct.
A few months later another friend in town appeared as a friend. He never sent me anything on his GC email nor did I.
This past week I got a call from an out of town younger relative who uses GC as his main email and never sent anything to my GC email. He got a notification that he had a GC relative, me. A day later his name appeared as a relative on my GM list. I have three names that I never sent a GM to them, nor received an GM from them.
None of these people nor I use any of the social nets.
Apparently, Google’s data mining was so effective, they put the 4 of us together. That was what caused this younger relative to say “Close down NSA and pay Google to do it.”
Since then, he said Google would probably do it for free.
It would seem that Google has both front and back door keys to just about everything doesn’t it!