Since it’s mostly free, there has to be a catch. I may be wrong, but since it’s Google, there’s always a catch nowadays.
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My understanding is the only one of those with a decent privacy policy is Photos
anything they are able to. id say everything short of keylogging
Don’t be so sure. Google has shown in the past that they store information typed into search bars even if the user does not commit the search.
good point. you can never be sure with pr*prietry software
our buddy-pal goog here wants to understand you. it wants to form an intimate relationship with you (and your data).
if you can imagine Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred, being able to find whatever thing Bruce needs in that mansion, goog here can find what yours is in the internet.
also goog is real. obligatory uwu
Well, that’s not hard to answer. It’s Google. They collect everything.
All sorts of data you provide it. hihi
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I guess the birthdays, your work/home schedule, daily routines, your bills, the level of procrastination in how keep avoiding your reminders.
Get a “Google Takeout” and download all the information they will let you see that they collect. Assume they collect more.
people can scare u and say they’re collecting everything :O which sounds scary til u realize u dont matter as a person and the data is stuff like where are your trends and interests so information and advertising given to you is tailored better
obviously the problem with that is it can easily tailor propaganda and be manipulative but thats what marketing is anyways and youre influenced whether you like it or not
be more concrete with how you feel about the world and create a relatively reliable bullshit detector. nothing is good or bad theres nuance in everything.
its not bad or good that they have our data really nobody knows the implications (because realistically and currently there are none except the fact its exploitative and essentially digital free labor. which we should demolish capitalism not people working in a broken system)
The problem isn’t that they know about me or you. Or that they know wherever we go and everything about us, more than our family or closest friends. That matters too of course, but the bigger problem is that they know this information about everyone and will know it forever. The issue is systemic privacy. Whenever things go to shit, which they will and partly already have, you’ll be sorry for not caring about privacy. Caring about personal privacy is rebellion and doing your part in the fight for privacy for everyone
u gave zero reasons or counter arguments u just said “im scared of god sending me to hell just in case he exists”
ur scared of a phantom, a possibility. nobody is going to regret anything. you’ll be ok
I do not fear a possibility I fear an inevitability.
lol if u say so
ill start guzzling dextro again if ur right just for u. i may need to borrow some tinfoil tho i don’t want them sucking my ad preferences out of my brain :O
Ah you don’t matter since you’re just one person, right? Then tell me your address, payment information, every friend you have, how often you spend with each of them, and where you go with them.
and if i did what would you do with it
aside from payment info which is necessary info to give unless ur a crypto bro u cant do anything with that info
shitty retort but good try ig
This argument doesn’t really work, unfortunately. This is a corporation we are talking about (one that is trusted by the majority of normies as well), not a random person. It’s not really equivalent
My perspective is that security breaches of companies are a guaranteed inevitability. What information we give them will end up in the hands of someone we don’t want to have access to it.
When dealing with Google - assume everything. Data is Google’s business and you are the product when you use their services.
Yes…
You can read their privacy policy, but I think you know the answer already. All of those things are stored 100% unencrypted on their servers, so you’re trusting Google 100% with all of your data.
Honestly, this is kind of a weird question. It’s Google. They collect all of it. Every picture, every note, every keystroke. All of it.
The answer to "what information does
GOOGLE SERVICEcollect is always all of it.Personal identification information like emails, phone numbers, date of birth
Device info including the devices you use to access google, models, OS, unique identifiers, and mobile network info
Location info including IPs, GPS, and data from other sensors Search queries including links you interact with and other info related to interaction with websites
Usage data including language preferences and which ads you interact with
Communication data like the time and date you made certain communications, the content and subject of the communication, voicemail messages in google voice, who you’re communicating with, when, content of chats including in hangouts/chat/meet, call quality, call duration, and other technical data
Content interaction information on how you interact with content through Google services; views, downloads, shares, likes, and comments
Youtube viewing history, including watch time, and impressions, what you do while you’re watching them, likes, and subscribes
Google apps data specific to app usages; so things like google Drive that collects data on files you upload, download, share, types of files, who you share them with, how often you access them, changes you make, and comments you leave; Gmail collects data from emails including who you’re emailing, who’s emailing you, and the email subject and contents; GCal collects all the data you input as well as how often and how you use your calendar; Photos collects data on where and when the photo or video was taken, who was in it, and other details about the photo; Maps tracks search info, routes taken, and other location-based information; Play collects data on apps you download, how often you use them, how you interact with them
Data collected through cookies that collect and store information, as well as pixel tags, local storage, browser web storage, application data caches, databases, and server logs
TL;DR if they can, they track it. We also have only some idea as to how they could be using this data to create personal profiles and social graphs for users to even link you with others in your proximity by comparing time and location data, pictures, preferences, etc.
Just as I feared… thanks for the info.
I don’t think they’ll come out publicly with the full extent of what is used, but basically everything.
I just assume everything. Any way you think they can monetize what they can see of yours, they do. And more that you can’t think of.
Probably not the actual content, hopefully, but more than likely the file types, length, size, frequency, every other variable so they can sell it. Probably to people making software to store or back up files so they know user habits and expectations. But that’s obviously the most innocent framing, I’m sure there’s a darker side somewhere.