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    Info What Does Google Know?

    The answer is, obviously, quite a lot.

    1. Find out what Google thinks about you

    In order to serve relevant ads, Google collects data about you and creates a profile. You can control and review the information Google has on you here:
    http://www.google.com/settings/ads/

    Google also has a tool called Google Analytics, that helps publishers see what pages you have viewed on their website, how many times you have visited it, how long did you stay etc. You can opt out if you don’t want this type of data to be collected:
    http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

    2. Find out your location history

    If you use Android, your mobile device may be sending your location to Google. You can see your entire location history here:
    https://maps.google.com/locationhistory

    3. Find out your entire Google Search history

    Google saves every single search you have ever done. On top of that, they record every Google ad you have clicked on. This log is available in Google web history controls:
    https://www.google.com/history/

    4. Get a monthly security and privacy report from Google

    Google offers an Account activity page that tells you about all the Google services you are using. You can even enable a monthly report that will be sent to your email:
    https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard

    5. Find out all the apps and extensions that are accessing your Google data

    The Account activity page also offers a list of all the apps that have any type of access to your data. You can see the exact type of permissions granted to the app and revoke access to your data here:
    https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

    6. Export all of your data out of Google

    Google lets you export all your data: bookmarks, emails, contacts, drive files, profile info, your youtube videos, photos and more here:
    https://www.google.com/takeout

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    That is worrying as fuck!!
    The location history is naughty!!

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    To be honest, I'm past caring now. There's no such thing as privacy on the internet. If 'they' wanna find out something about you, they will. So long as you're not building a bomb or looking at kiddie porn, I doubt they'll do much with your info other than spam you with more erectile dysfunction emails.

    "Oh no, Google knows I was at The Red Lion at 2pm last Saturday!!" Gimme a break.

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Quote Originally Posted by CominAtcha View Post
    To be honest, I'm past caring now. There's no such thing as privacy on the internet. If 'they' wanna find out something about you, they will. So long as you're not building a bomb or looking at kiddie porn, I doubt they'll do much with your info other than spam you with more erectile dysfunction emails.

    "Oh no, Google knows I was at The Red Lion at 2pm last Saturday!!" Gimme a break.
    I never understand this... why should I care because I have nothing to hide.

    The average Brit commits 7 crimes a week. These may be as minor (to you) as checking your phone at traffic lights, speeding, paying cash-in-hand, downloading last night's Eastenders, banging a bird in an alley, smoking some weed etc...

    Based on just the above, if the government wanted to sanction, fine, imprison you etc... they could build a pretty good case based on hundreds of misdemeanours. Therefore I personally do have something to hide, and would rather the likes of Google didn't track everything I did, and potentially shared it with my government.
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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    I never said I had nothing to hide......

    Fair enough though. But as I say, if they want to find out they will. Whether I kick up a fuss about it or not. Hence me being past caring.

    And if the government really wants my ass over a lifetime of being a naughty boy via Google, then maybe I should have been a good boy instead and I only have myself to blame.

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Then there is the amazon Alexa every thing you say after you say Alexa is kept on there server fuck knows why?

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Quote Originally Posted by DejaVu View Post
    That is worrying as fuck!!
    The location history is naughty!!
    I've noticed my android phone seems to sometimes save locations I've been to without me asking in google maps.

    I've also noticed every so often my asks me to renew my gmail password and it moans it can't do a couple of things until I do that.

    I'm guessing the gmail account is the unique identifier, so I just let my password expire and don't renew it.

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Quote Originally Posted by CominAtcha View Post
    To be honest, I'm past caring now. There's no such thing as privacy on the internet. If 'they' wanna find out something about you, they will. So long as you're not building a bomb or looking at kiddie porn, I doubt they'll do much with your info other than spam you with more erectile dysfunction emails.

    "Oh no, Google knows I was at The Red Lion at 2pm last Saturday!!" Gimme a break.
    ISPs have to record what you have been doing for the last year.

    It's also been ruled that dodgy streaming is illegal for end users as well as sellers.

    I can imagine for example BT might not care about streaming. However I can imagine Virgin are very bothered about streaming as they may think it hurts sales of subscriptions.

    I'm wondering how long it will be now till Virgin start nicking people streaming. I doubt it's beyond their capabilities to look "inside" VPN's as well.....

    I don't stream anything dodgy myself, but I suspect a reasonable number of people on here do.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Over Carl View Post
    It's also been ruled that dodgy streaming is illegal for end users as well as sellers.
    Unless the EU ruling on this has been overturned then it's not

    The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed that watching pirated video streams online does not break any copyright laws.

    The ruling comes via a legal battle between rights holders and European media service company Meltwater. Copyright holders including the Associated Press charged Meltwater with copyright infringement when the company extracted headlines from various news sources and sent these via email to users.

    In an interesting twist, the media groups suing Meltwater, led by the U.K. based Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), also argued that users receiving these emails should be liable for licensing fees, an argument which led to this week's ruling.

    Early court rulings initially favored the NLA, but the Supreme Court of The United Kingdom eventually ruled against the NLA, confirming that viewing copyrighted content online is not copyright infringement. The court cited existing EU copyright law which that temporary copies are given a specific exemption from copyright law. The court did refer the matter for further comment to the CJEU.

    This week, the CJEU confirmed that the existing EU copyright exemptions for temporary copies applies to viewing and streaming online. Viewing or streaming, the court says, is different to making a copy and would be exempt from copyright laws, but the copies "must be temporary, that they must be transient or incidental in nature and that they must constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process."

    While this ruling provides clarification on this issue, the ruling may anger rights holders who have in recent times devoted more resources in tackling the piracy problem caused by the increasing use of streaming services. It's worth noting that this ruling does not exempt operators of these streaming services from legal responsibility, only the viewers and users of these services.

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Sorry as I don't stream myself I just sometimes quickly skim through stuff about streaming, must have got mistaken here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Over Carl View Post
    Sorry as I don't stream myself I just sometimes quickly skim through stuff about streaming, must have got mistaken here.
    It's because Trading standards and F.A.C.T. are peddling misinformation and lies to try and stop people streaming claiming it's illegal when it isn't, they can make whatever claims they like on how they would like the law to be but it's worthless and they don't decide the courts do. The main problem they have to overcome legislating on this is the fleeting storage in RAM due to the fact everything you view online is stored in a transient way and you view masses of copyright material so if they included anything temporary, fleeting or not a substantial part of the original work there would be masses of snide claims instantly for royalties from as an example someone viewing a photography page. It is not the courts don't want to stop it or legislate against it IMHO it's just they don't know how without cunting a mass of other things.

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    There are only two real reasons for storing our data. To sell us more shit or to catch us if we break the law. Given that the two groups who store this data are faceless, profit driven corporations and power hungry nation states, we should be very wary. You may think the data they collect today on you is harmless. But as technology progresses the capabilities of both corporations and governments will become increasingly invasive, and in some cases, quite chilling.

    One day soon, and that means in the next decade, we'll have devices that along with knowing your purchasing habits, browsing habits, hobbies, interests, daily movements, future plans etc., will asses your emotions as you read, listen to music or watch video. AI will know you better than you know yourself on a very deep psychological level. The likes of Amazon et al are already investing billions in systems that will invade our privacy like never before. They'll have so much data that they'll literally be able to predict our behaviour. That opens up all kinds of dystopian scenarios, especially when nation states have the same technology. They won't need 'Pre-cogs' to predict your future behaviour, just the right algorithm and enough data.

    When we reach this stage, and it's not too far away, it will change the very notion of what it means to be human. The long debated question of whether we have free will is soon to be answered. By a machine and our apathetic willingness to hand over ever increasing amounts of data.

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    Default Re: What Does Google Know?

    Google records you as well when you use voice
    https://history.google.com/history/audio

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