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Facebook and Google literally has over 300 GB of data on me

tempsolution 6y ago
Yeah, careful that they don't shoot you, frame you or make you disappear into a work camp in Siberia. If anything you should worry what the NSA has on you.
stareatgoats 6y ago
Not doubting that they have a comprehensive dossier, but that seems like an exaggeration to me. How did you come up with that figure?
- ljf 6y ago
  No idea where that figure is from, but Google photos must have about 100 to 200 gb of photos and videos I've taken, plus the meta data - and I am not an avid photographer. Fb will then have another chunk, in the UK they used to also have an auto photo backup service at one point but I don't think I used it for long. Assuming the meta data they have on me won't be that big, but who knows - all my search and other data in the last 13 years will come to a fair size - but would guess that would be more 10s of gb - total finger in the air.
- gambiting 6y ago
  Yeah I get a full Google data dump every 3 months and it's about 350GB at the moment. Most of it is photos, but still.
  - thih9 6y ago
    With advances in AI and digital image analysis, I'd guess that long term these photos could provide lots of information too. Especially if google attempted to extract information from aggregated media of all users. Very offtopic, there's a sci-fi novella, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague , where one of the plot elements is a search for information through old photos and movies.
paganel 6y ago
A big difference and what hurt the most about this type of archives was that the powers that be mostly collected their data on you based on your close friends/work colleagues. I was too young to have any Securitate records (I was 9 when the regime fell in '89) but I'm pretty sure both my parents have records in there. I wouldn't want to check them if I were to be in their shoes because I wouldn't want to know who of my friends or close work colleagues betrayed me to the Securitate.

Yeah, careful that they don't shoot you, frame you or make you disappear into a work camp in Siberia. If anything you should worry what the NSA has on you.

stareatgoats 6y ago

Not doubting that they have a comprehensive dossier, but that seems like an exaggeration to me. How did you come up with that figure?

ljf 6y ago
No idea where that figure is from, but Google photos must have about 100 to 200 gb of photos and videos I've taken, plus the meta data - and I am not an avid photographer. Fb will then have another chunk, in the UK they used to also have an auto photo backup service at one point but I don't think I used it for long. Assuming the meta data they have on me won't be that big, but who knows - all my search and other data in the last 13 years will come to a fair size - but would guess that would be more 10s of gb - total finger in the air.
gambiting 6y ago
Yeah I get a full Google data dump every 3 months and it's about 350GB at the moment. Most of it is photos, but still.
- thih9 6y ago
  With advances in AI and digital image analysis, I'd guess that long term these photos could provide lots of information too. Especially if google attempted to extract information from aggregated media of all users. Very offtopic, there's a sci-fi novella, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague , where one of the plot elements is a search for information through old photos and movies.

paganel 6y ago

A big difference and what hurt the most about this type of archives was that the powers that be mostly collected their data on you based on your close friends/work colleagues. I was too young to have any Securitate records (I was 9 when the regime fell in '89) but I'm pretty sure both my parents have records in there. I wouldn't want to check them if I were to be in their shoes because I wouldn't want to know who of my friends or close work colleagues betrayed me to the Securitate.