If you and your wife use any of the same devices with Google then this is how they are likely linking your accounts.
On Sunday, March 17, 2013, xek3149 wrote: > Yes. I've done fresh installs, began a search using google, and received > results that suggest my searches on other computers. This has happened in > the suggested videos on youtube also. IP address is the only connection > between computers. > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > On Mar 17, 2013 12:09 PM, "Yosem Companys" > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> > wrote: > >> From: Steve Sebestyen <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>> >> >> Considering a similar thread I saw this morning regarding Google I'd like >> to ping the group to share a creepy experience and see if perhaps others >> have had a similar experience. >> >> This morning my wife grabbed her phone to do a search for activities at >> Chelsea Piers. She followed that up with another inquiry for hours at a >> local mall. Five minutes later I launched Google Now for stock updates and >> what do I see? At the top of the Google Now window was a map and >> approximate time to Chelsea Piers. I was pretty astonished that Google had >> linked my wife's search to me somehow. Our accounts are only linked via >> Google Calendar but no event was created by her. >> >> I then followed up with a search. As I began the query with our local >> town it auto-completed it with mall hours. The very same query my wife ran. >> That was too much for my comfort. >> >> I've unlinked our accounts in every way I can think of barring a complete >> deletion of my account. >> >> The only other vector I can imagine Google uses to provide such creepy >> behavior is that both of our phones were connected to our WiFi AP and >> therefore share a common external IP. Still, for me that's too much of a >> 'seamless experience'. >> >> Has anyone experienced anything like this? >> >> Steve Sebestyen >> 203-604-6963 >> About.me/stevesebestyen >> >> -- >> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >> emailing moderator at [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> or changing your settings at >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> > -- Michael A. Oren PhD in Human-Computer Interaction & Sociology
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