Posted on 03/28/2018 4:56:05 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.
Manage to gain access to someone’s Google account? Perfect, you have a diary of everything that person has done 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’ve purchased, the Google groups you’re in, the websites you’ve created, the phones you’ve owned, the pages you’ve shared, how many steps you walk in a day ...
Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/takeout
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The secret police are here and we let them in....
I am under no illusion that Apple is much better but I don’t use Android, gmail on a regular basis, don’t use Chrome on mobile, don’t use Google hangouts, instant messenger, groups, don’t use Picasso (Photo service.) or much else by them.
However... and this is the big but. I use them for search.
Still I’m not surprised by what they save. Their meta data alone could sink any single person that ever wanted to run for office, was a public personality or a business adversary. Not to mention how they could throw it into performance reviews of their employees.
It’s beyond time to regulate (I hate to say that.) or break up Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet. They are worse than US Steel, Standard, JP Morgan or AT&T.
Those companies may have maximized what they could earn from their customers. These new hi tech robber barons just want to own you and everything you do.
Hmm. I don’t have a FB account and I don’t use Google, preferring Bing.. It would be interesting to see how much they have...
It’s like the old SNL landshark skits.
“Who is it?”
“Google.”
“Who???”
“Facebook”
“Oh! You’re an evil landshark that wants to gobble me up!”
“No, no. Just your family and friends.”
“Well, why didn’t you say....aaaauuuuggghhh!!!”
Great post—this is information every single person on the planet should know—and that is why they _won’t_ teach it in any public school or university.
These corporations are a blight on the human race and need to be trust busted.
Bump for ref
Q: Anyone know if was possible for Facebook to collect info on non-members who visited Facebook sites?
The real purpose of these recent revelations about the internet and our privacy is that it is a test. They’ve been gathering data for marketing and such for a decade. Now, they let us know and make some feeble apologies while continuing to accumulate the data and perfecting the algorithms.
Then, they wait and compile data on who quit and who changed their usage habits as a result of these revelations. I would bet that in the end, there will be statistically no difference in user behavior and that sends the signal that the next phase is a GO: full profile building using third-party organizations that have links to Soros organizations.
Because people simply don’t care as long as the little magic box in their hand keeps them amused constantly from the alarm clock in the morning to the last Tweet of the day at bedtime.
The purpose? It becomes a strain gauge to measure how far they can go and how far they can push. After all, the Globalist Progressives want productive and compliant serfs working their holdings. And these days, the emphasis is on compliant since automation and workplace monitoring can force productivity out of the compliant.
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City considering how much they have already.....most likely.
My children all have gmail because their schools facilitated them having accounts. I worked at a school which uses Outlook for email for faculty and staff but also uses OneDrive for documents. My children have a ton of data already collected on them from school computer usage. They come home and log in to their accounts and proceed to produce more personal data. How many parents knowingly consent to this? Also, schools are using data collection regularly starting in preschool. Motives for educators are innocent enough. However, the companies collecting the data are probably not as secure as they should be.
Many many years ago, I posted regularly on lucianne’s website. She actively promoted google when google was starting out. That is when I first used google. I was eventually kicked off that site for taking a W speech and comparing his words to Bubba’s words. Lol
Same here
I smell a big, yummy class action lawsuit. Go plaintiff lawyers!
Schools have failed to teach their students how to function in the real future world where big corporations, criminal organizations, and government “security” organizations have total access to information about them.
That means that any student will be able to be blackmailed at any time by some very bad folks—unless they have been perfect and obedient citizens with “politically correct” thoughts every moment of their waking lives.
That is the real future—unless young people stand up and say “f___ this!”
Not that ominous. They just worded it badly.
Imagine a scenario: Their computers can make 1000 reports per minute, but right after the article came out million people requested the report, so now the computers have 1000 minutes (17 hours) worth of work scheduled so those in the back of the line will get theirs after 17 hours.
> Q: Anyone know if was possible for Facebook to collect info on non-members who visited Facebook sites?
Yes. If you see a page with a facebook “like” or “share” button, they know you visited that page. And they know what that page is about so they add that to your profile.
If you are a member, they add this to your FB profile. If you are not a member, they keep an “anonymous” profile. They have many ways of getting name/email/phone/zip/etc into this “anonymous” profile. But they don’t need that use what they’ve collected for targeted content and ads on other sites you visit. Most people have visited 100s or 1000s of sites with FB buttons so they have a lot of information about them and about what they do on those sites (which pages. how long do you stay on a page, ...).
And, you only have to SEE the buttons on the page. You don’t need to click them. I did some work for a HUGE company that refused to put FB buttons on websites for this reason. I was in many technical and high level (C*O) meetings with FB to try to find a solution. FB would not budge on their being able to collect visitor data even though they REALLY wanted their buttons on 10s of millions of our page views a day. They offered things like segregating data from our sites into profiles that that wouldn’t be used for anything other than targeted ad on OUR sites.
We offered to do things like collect/store the data ourself and provide them the minimum needed if one of our brands wanted to use FB targeting for a campaign (along with a fee to them to run the targeting). Since they said they only wanted data for targeted campaigns on OUR sites, but the wouldn’t accept our housing the data and paying them almost whatever they wanted when we had a targeted campaign, it was pretty obvious they wanted the data for other reasons.
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