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>If you use Google Now, Google autorecommends locations -- including retail stores -- that you might want travel time to based on its tracking, so its pretty ha
by 27182818284 11y ago
>If you use Google Now, Google autorecommends locations -- including retail stores -- that you might want travel time to based on its tracking, so its pretty hard not to be aware that it is doing the tracking.
I've noticed with that, every time it surprises someone, they call it creepy, but they don't turn it off and then get used to it. Myself included.
- kej 11y agoI was creeped out at first, but then I realized that Verizon already has all the same data, and I trust Google way more than I trust Verizon.
- morsch 11y agoDoes Verizon also have your emails, your photos, a large sample of your browsing history, your search history, what videos you watch online -- not sure what I'm forgetting -- oh yeah, and of course the data analysis skills to interconnect all those vast amounts of data, make educated guesses about the pieces they don't have yet, and a business model that centers around it?
- kej 11y agoSince I browse, search, and watch videos on my phone, they have a decent amount of that information. But where Google will correlate all of that data in order to show me advertisements, Verizon will modify my traffic to make me more trackable and then sell my data to other advertisers.