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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to go request the same fucking data from

Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208

And Microsoft: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/how-to-download-a-copy-of-everything-microsoft-knows-about-me.html

Then go ahead and tell me they’re in the same ballpark as what Google’s collected on you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What you're able to request from these companies officially is just the tip of the iceberg. The point is that between phone numbers, email reuse, google analytics etc with fingerprinting, and operating system telemetry, a complete picture is assembled of users.

If you're not looking for arguments and instead approaching things from understanding surveillance maybe my statements will make sense now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is literally not the tip of the iceberg. I work in the industry, so lecturing me about data management platforms is asinine. Microsoft and Apple’s collection practices are minuscule compared to Google’s and DMPs are terrible at their jobs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Lol? Way to discredit yourself as a clueless fucking rube. "I work in the industry and I take everything my employer says at face value" is not going to convince me bucko.

Why don't you start talking about Apple's third party ad service servers if you think you know where all the data is going? They leak everything even if they don't officially retain stuff. It's all theatre for employees and regulators and the EU.