Do you use Google and their applications? If you do, Google could know just as much about you as your best friend! The privacy we have now is limited, but with the help of Google our privacy can be almost obliterated completely!If you use Google’s search engine, Google knows what you have searched for as well as your activity on partner Web sites that use its ad services.
If you use the Google Chrome browser, it may know every Web site you’ve typed into the address bar.It may have all of your e-mail (Gmail), your appointments (Google Calendar) and even your last known location (Google Latitude). It may know what you’re watching (YouTube) and whom you are calling. It may have transcripts of your telephone messages (Google Voice). It may hold your photos in Picasa Web Albums, which includes face-recognition technology that can automatically identify you and your friends in new photos. And through Google Books, it may know what books you’ve read, what you read and how long you spent reading.Technically Google doesn’t know anything about you. But it stores tons of data about you and your activities on its servers, from the content you create to the searches you perform, the Web sites you visit and the ads you click.
What do we think? We think Google shouldn’t store so much data. We think they should give us the privacy we deserve. Sure it helps with searches and such but is it worth it for Google to know that much about you? According to Pam Dixon, executive director at the World Privacy Forum, “No company has ever had this much consumer data.” That quote is scary in a way.
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