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Maybe, if we popularize the part about data export enough, people will come to realize the kind of things google tracks. I took one data dump last year and unsu
by ankit219 8y ago
Maybe, if we popularize the part about data export enough, people will come to realize the kind of things google tracks. I took one data dump last year and unsurprisingly, since I had an android device, Google knew a lot about me. In that order: Devices, Installs, Library (superset of all apps ever installed), Order history, Purchase history, then all my contacts, even the ones I starred on android, then every order I ever placed on anywhere and got a receipt in gmail (it also stored it separately as purchases) with price, ticket number, frequent flyer, merchant, and so on. I was expecting a bit of this so did not feel creeped out, but if more people see it, they will be horrified. Granted, this is when I stop google from recording the data whenever I can - search history, location history, and so on.
Edit: Anecdote wise, Google has a more accurate list of all the addresses I have ever lived at, than I do. They record the address of every physical delivery at whichever place I asked my shipment to be delivered. I have lived at 7-8 different homes (in three cities) in the past 6 years, and I dont have those addresses on hand either. But yeah, google might.