What kind of noob "data consultant" must you be if you didn't know years ago you can opt-out of most of the google stuff? Google allows to deactivate/delete (we dont know if they do but at least its offered) most of the stuff he wrote about. Facebook is its own story, but then again..his own fault for using and pushing data up there
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#102This person stored their PGP private key on Google Drive, which they use "to encrypt" emails. I'm glad the author is security-conscious enough to know what PGP is, I guess. And that they deleted it from Drive (didn't say why, hopefully they came to their senses about the more-than-usual amount of trust they were placing in Google). Is there a valid use case for "encrypting" email with a private key? I guess signing a…
I came here to ctrl+f "pgp" in the comments, but because he stored it on Drive.
Having your private key in a non-client-side-encrypted cloud is like keeping a vector representation of your hand signature on your website.
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#103This is nonsensical: > The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents. > Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents. This link [Google Takeout] includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve t…
The Activity one is a bit scary though. How many Android users are aware that Android tracks their app use and whatnot in this fashion? I think that's a point to take home. Users know that Google looks at their "location information". In their minds, it's to provide relevant weather info and whatnot. Seeing it aggregated in this way makes you realise that you actually are sending your entire life to Google servers.
Every time I've shown people stuff like that, they shrugged: "so what ?". They. Don't. Care.
That's the problem, right here.
Not that entities are selling people's privacy. Bad guys have always been there, and will always be. But usually people want to act against them.
In this situation people don't want to. We got a very sudden outrage out of sheer media amplification effect. It will fade. And they will go back to trading what's important to what's convenient.
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#104This is where a legit issue start to turn into clickbait weak journalism.
I don't know about clickbait, but The Guardian, NYT and Bloomberg seem to be going very heavy on the Facebook stories. Is it because negative press sells or do they have a vested interest in seeing Facebook fail (as in they hope readership will surge)? Could be both, I guess.
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#105So I clicked on several of the Google links in the article to see what info they had on me, and all of the resulting pages prompted me to sign in to Google to see the info. (Which I did not then do.) So... they're only gathering this info on people who use Google services while signed in? It's not like you need to be signed in to use search or maps. I thought that this article would be about how Google tracks you without being signed in, and even if you clear your browser's cookies.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google has tons of data on you that isn't available in Takeout as well. (So does Facebook.) Bear in mind, these companies know which ads they've shown you and when, for example, and at least in one case, buys your credit card transaction history to compare your purchases with the ads you've seen.
> Bear in mind, these companies know which ads they've shown you and when, for example, and at least in one case, buys your credit card transaction history to compare your purchases with the ads you've seen. Correct me if I am wrong but are you saying one of these two companies buys people's credit card transaction history and then compares people's ad history against the transaction history? If yes, that sounds real…
Yes, this was in the news a few times.
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#107This is nonsensical: > The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents. > Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents. This link [Google Takeout] includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve t…
Thanks for the reality check. Poor journalistic integrity.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here. So how do you send private messages? Carrier pigeon? Even Signal uses the internet, after all.
I bought an entry level fountain pen, some ink, some lightly cotton blended paper and stamps. Then I got hooked. I learned how to fold paper into its own envelope. I bought supple wax and sent a design for a custom wax seal stamp, so now I can mail a letter that is wax sealed domestically or internationally. My friends love getting letters in the mail that's not spam. And a few even write back. One made his whole env…
I thought letters were x-rayed at the post office and their contents OCR'd?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Activity one is a bit scary though. How many Android users are aware that Android tracks their app use and whatnot in this fashion? I think that's a point to take home. Users know that Google looks at their "location information". In their minds, it's to provide relevant weather info and whatnot. Seeing it aggregated in this way makes you realise that you actually are sending your entire life to Google servers.
Every time I've shown people stuff like that, they shrugged: "so what ?". They. Don't. Care. That's the problem, right here. Not that entities are selling people's privacy. Bad guys have always been there, and will always be. But usually people want to act against them. In this situation people don't want to. We got a very sudden outrage out of sheer media amplification effect. It will fade. And they will go back to…
I'm not sure it's a problem. People just have different opinions.
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#110NO, NO, NO. This is not all data Facebook/Google has on me . It's way less. What I don't get in all of this debate: People grant FB/Google/any other app access to their data and seriously expect that their data isn't harvested? IMHO, there really is zero surprise that Facebook has your call and SMS history, if you granted access to that. Or every single login timestamp. What is way scarier is that the dump you can do…
people don't know they are granting permissions.
when you provision a new android device it will try to link your account to chrone, and its very hard even for a developer to catch its chrome and not android os. after that small mistake (which is an optout in the ui pattern) its game over. google have all your history and every webview ad has your full profile. not to mention your web bank passwords are now conveniently save in google servers in plain text.
and yes, an even worse problem is the hidden data/shadow profile.