Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
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Re: Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
#2I read the opening paragraph and thought 'wow, this guy has clearly just taken the release statement from Duckduckgo's privacy app announcement (or possibly their much-upvoted AMA) and just copied and pasted some statistics.'
Then I saw the author.
Re: Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
#3Yes!
Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done.
Easy peasy.
Re: Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
#4Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
"Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data."
"Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge."
"Google starts tracking offline shopping"
Sure. Deleting the accounts surely is enough.
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#5Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
"Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data." "Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge." "Google starts tracking offline shopping" Sure. Deleting t…
Indeed. It will take legislative action including no-knock raids on DCs and offices to rein them in.
Someone in the NHS needs to be held responsible too.
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#6Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
I use gmail and don't wish to give it up for now. I launch gmail in a site-specific browser process so that my login is isolated. This makes it so that in my main browser, I'm not logged into my Google account and they don't see where I go. As a bonus, the "filter bubble" effect is diminished for my Google searches.
That's not a reasonable approach for non-techies, but I thought it might interest the HN audience.
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#7Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
"Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data." "Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge." "Google starts tracking offline shopping" Sure. Deleting t…
Oh, none of those are exclusive or even new. Your credit rating company has far more info on you that you didn't sign up for.
And AFAIK, and from what I heard from friends working at google, everything is linked to a google gaia account, if you don't have one, you don't exist for them.
Have you deleted your Google and Fb account yet?
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#8Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
I use gmail and don't wish to give it up for now. I launch gmail in a site-specific browser process so that my login is isolated. This makes it so that in my main browser, I'm not logged into my Google account and they don't see where I go. As a bonus, the "filter bubble" effect is diminished for my Google searches. That's not a reasonable approach for non-techies, but I thought it might interest the HN audience.
> I use gmail and don't wish to give it up for now.
Well, that's your choice, isn't it?
> That's not a reasonable approach for non-techies, but I thought it might interest the HN audience.
Non-techies can just go the good ol' way and pay for an ad-free, tracking-free email service, mapping service, storage service, etc.
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#9Yes! Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done. Easy peasy.
"Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data." "Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS [...] gave the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab access to 1.6 million NHS patient records across three North London hospitals without patient's prior knowledge." "Google starts tracking offline shopping" Sure. Deleting t…
Good point. This was used as a positive spin when there was the debate over whether Facebook is listening to your conversations.
The conclusion was no, but they are gathering more data from third parties so as to make direct listening unproductive. I found that more disturbing that Facebook has real-time access to whatever they believe I am looking at on Amazon, as presumably other places.
Re: Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
#10Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck...