Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Venustus" data-source="post: 827676" data-attributes="member: 4295"> With all the attention paid to Facebook in recent weeks over ‘data breaches’ and privacy violations (even though what happened with Cambridge Analytica is part of their standard business model), it’s easy to forget that there are four other Big Tech corporations collecting just as much — if not more — of our personal info. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all <a href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/2986988/privacy/the-price-of-free-how-apple-facebook-microsoft-and-google-sell-you-to-advertisers.html" target="_blank">central players</a>in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data. New reports suggest that Google may actually harvest ten times as much as Facebook.Curious about just how much of his data Google had, web developer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5557619/IT-expert-reveals-extent-data-Google-you.html" target="_blank">Dylan Curran</a> says he downloaded his Google data file, which is offered by the company in a hub called “My Account.” This hub was created in 2015, along with a tool called “My Activity.” The report issued is similar to the one <a href="https://theantimedia.com/facebook-secret-file/" target="_blank">Facebook delivers</a> to its users upon request. Whether or not these reports are comprehensive is still up in the air, but Curran says his was 5.5 GB, which is almost ten times larger than the one Facebook offered him. The amount and type of data in his file, Mr. Curran says, suggests Google is not only constantly tracking our online movements but may also be monitoring our physical locations.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://themindunleashed.com/2019/08/google-10-times-data-facebook.html[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Venustus, post: 827676, member: 4295"] [I] With all the attention paid to Facebook in recent weeks over ‘data breaches’ and privacy violations (even though what happened with Cambridge Analytica is part of their standard business model), it’s easy to forget that there are four other Big Tech corporations collecting just as much — if not more — of our personal info. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all [URL='https://www.pcworld.com/article/2986988/privacy/the-price-of-free-how-apple-facebook-microsoft-and-google-sell-you-to-advertisers.html']central players[/URL]in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data. New reports suggest that Google may actually harvest ten times as much as Facebook. Curious about just how much of his data Google had, web developer [URL='https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5557619/IT-expert-reveals-extent-data-Google-you.html']Dylan Curran[/URL] says he downloaded his Google data file, which is offered by the company in a hub called “My Account.” This hub was created in 2015, along with a tool called “My Activity.” The report issued is similar to the one [URL='https://theantimedia.com/facebook-secret-file/']Facebook delivers[/URL] to its users upon request. Whether or not these reports are comprehensive is still up in the air, but Curran says his was 5.5 GB, which is almost ten times larger than the one Facebook offered him. The amount and type of data in his file, Mr. Curran says, suggests Google is not only constantly tracking our online movements but may also be monitoring our physical locations.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://themindunleashed.com/2019/08/google-10-times-data-facebook.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

Verification