"Google's File on Me Was Huge. Here's Why It Wasn't as Creepy as My Facebook Data."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/personaltech/google-personal-data-facebook.html?emc=edit_th_180517&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=576886480517 Google has far more data about us than Facebook. Yet unlike Mark Zuckerberg's social networking empire, which has been under fire for improperly leaking user data, Google has sidestepped controversy. You may wonder: Why is that? After all, we turn to Google for not only our internet searches but also for our emails, calendaring, maps, photo uploads, video streaming, mobile phones and web browsers. That's far more pervasive than the baby photos and comments that we post on Facebook. To help get an answer, I downloaded a copy of all of the information that Google has on me. Then I compared the trove to all the data that I already knew Facebook had obtained on me. What I found was that my Google data archive was much larger than my Facebook file -- about 12 times larger, in fact -- but it was also packed with fewer unpleasant surprises. - - - ALSO: "The Google Page That Google Haters Don't Want You to Know About" - https://lauren.vortex.com/2017/04/20/the-google-page-that-google-haters-dont-want-you-to-know-about --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
