You might be a bit too critical with the journalist, the example you provide is the final one after pointing all the not so "obvious to ordinary end user" data

You might be a bit too critical with the journalist, the example you provide is the final one after pointing all the not so "obvious to ordinary end user" data Google has about someone. Is it perfect, no. But its good that more mainstream media is discussing these things so people get a better understanding of this. Maybe it will stop folks from uploading unencrypted data to cloud providers down the road and improve research that allows cloud providers to process encrypted data meaningfully without every being able to decrypt. The 3m pages of word doc is odd, but its not uncommon to convert overall size to word doc pages in journalist speech (just map size to average word doc size), and then they disregarding data type. I have seen this in other places too.