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Offline endicom

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Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« on: March 31, 2018, 08:12:08 am »
The Guardian
Dylan Curran
Mar. 30, 2018

Want to freak yourself out? I’m going to show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it.

Google knows where you’ve been
Google stores your location (if you have location tracking turned on) every time you turn on your phone. You can see a timeline of where you’ve been from the very first day you started using Google on your phone.

Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/maps/timeline?…

Here is every place I have been in the last 12 months in Ireland. You can see the time of day that I was in the location and how long it took me to get to that location from my previous one.

More... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2018, 09:02:49 am »
"You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine...............................".   
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2018, 11:09:44 am »
Quote from: Texas Yellow Rose on March 31, 2018, 09:02:49 am
"You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine...............................".   
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-Season one opening voice-over by Harold Finch - Person of Interest

Not The government but any government or individual wishing to compile such data.

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Offline skeeter

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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2018, 11:18:24 am »
I was at a cafe in Kihei last week. Yesterday FB sent me their page as a 'you might like this' suggestion.

So, yeah, they know where you are.
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2018, 11:24:10 am »
I don't use Google and I don't have FB on my phone.
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2018, 10:38:57 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on March 31, 2018, 11:24:10 am
I don't use Google and I don't have FB on my phone.

I tried using a different search engine rather than Google and it actually slowed my computer down.  Suggestions?
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2018, 10:43:17 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on April 09, 2018, 10:38:57 pm
I tried using a different search engine rather than Google and it actually slowed my computer down.  Suggestions?

I use Ixquick.com (Startpage.com on my phone).  I've never had  a problem.
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2018, 07:30:04 pm »
Quote from: Texas Yellow Rose on March 31, 2018, 09:02:49 am
"You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine...............................".       
Every day's news reminds me how prescient that TV show was.
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Re: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2018, 08:13:42 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on April 09, 2018, 10:43:17 pm
I use Ixquick.com (Startpage.com on my phone).  I've never had  a problem.

Thanks for the tip.
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