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Tracking everything you do on the internet and offline using your phone including 24/7 location tracking and passive wi-fi mapping is not intrusive enough for y
by nukeop 9y ago
Tracking everything you do on the internet and offline using your phone including 24/7 location tracking and passive wi-fi mapping is not intrusive enough for you?
- mda 9y agoDo you think the designers of such services made them mainly for nefarious purposes (surveillance, exploitation and corporate oppression)? Most of the things you mention has perfectly legitimate and useful functionality, they are usually optional and data is anonymized after a while, has option to completely disable / remove / see all data with a a few clicks.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> see all data Yes? Where do I have to click to get a database dump of the actual data Google has on me? In machine-readable format, please?
- mda 9y agoMy activities page is a good start.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoUh, you've missed the forest for the trees. Google is an ad company, full stop. Everything Google does is functionally built to track you and sell ads based on that tracking. Any "legitimate and useful functionality" exists to give you a reason to feed data into their ad company. Google Maps doesn't exist to help you get around, that has never been it's purpose and never will be. Google Maps exists to give you a reason to tell Google where you are and where you're going so they can target ads to you.
- mda 9y agoWell You can disable almost all of that and delete all your history permanently. Isn't it nice?
- nukeop 9y agoYou can delete it from your view, but you can never delete it from Google's servers. And they (like Facebook and others) have an advertising id tied to your profile even if you don't have an account with them. Try deleting that.
- mda 9y agoNo, when you delete your data (history etc.) it is also deleted from servers and backups. This was previously discussed on HN before, with some input from google SREs.
- nukeop 9y agoAnd you know this how? They can just remove it from your view, claim they deleted it, and keep it on their servers for future profiling, just like they do with people who do not have accounts with them.
- mda 9y agoWell it is google engineers words against random speculation, why sould they bother creating all that infrastructure for deleting stuff thoroughly. I take theirs.