Think Facebook Knows A Lot About You? Google Is WORSE!

Daily Mail ^ | 03/29/18 | Tim Collins

[Enlightened1]

Dylan Curran downloaded all of the data stored on him by Facebook and Google

Google's data archive was almost ten times larger than scandal hit Facebook's

It dated back to 2008 and revealed a level of detail that shocked the IT expert

He laid out the extent of the private information held on him in a series of tweets

Facebook has hit the headlines in recent weeks over its handling of your private data, and now the shocking extent of information held by Google has been revealed.

In a series of tweets, one IT expert has laid out exactly what the search giant knows about him, dating back to 2008, which he describes as 'preposterous'.

It ranges from every place he visited in the past year to every website he clicked on, and even contained files deleted from his Google Drive cloud storage account.

The news comes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw a Trump-affiliated firm obtaining data on 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users.

This information was used to target voters in the US, based on psychological profiling, with political adverts spreading disinformation.

Web developer Dylan Curran, based in Waterford, Ireland, decided to download both his Facebook and Google archives on Saturday.

The data held by the world's most popular social media site was fairly large, at around 600mb, equivalent to roughly 400,000 Word documents.

But this paled in comparison to Google's data file, which was 5.5gb, almost ten times larger. This is around the same size as three million Word documents.

Sharing his findings on Twitter, in a post retweed more than 150,000 times, he said: 'Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it.'

[dljordan]

I just downloaded my account data. These people need to be hung.

[Da Coyote]

Nothing is worse than Google.

[butlerweave]

Don’t forget Microsoft’s Windows 10

[Enlightened1]

If Facebook falls, then Google and Twitter will all fall too.

[Enlightened1]

Same with Apple moving their Cloud over to Communist China.

[frnewsjunkie]

Yes, google is bad enough.. go shopping, come home and what you were looking for out shopping, will pop up on any search on google.

[Revel]

Yup...Google is everywhere...Tracking everything. Google analytics(java script) is even running right here on FR.

[rigelkentaurus]

I have previously gone to the Google link and turned off everything. I went there today, again, and it shows no data and everything turned off.

Does that mean I believe that Google has none of this data on me? Good heavens no. Of course they have every last bit of data. It just means they are not showing ME what they have collected - that is all the configurations do - display what we have on you or not display - they collect and keep it all the same.

[CodeToad]

Google knows your every search and resulting visited website.

[freedumb2003]

I never sign on to Google nor any other search provider so no problem.

I read but do not post on fb.

LinkedIn knows me but I IM people individually and don’t post information other than so generic as to be unintelligible to anyone who does not know me.

Anyone who does otherwise is an idiot.

[EDINVA]

I downloaded my Facebook data, how do I do google? I use gmail, and noted from the beginning that they DO run ads based on the content, not the addressee, of your emails.

[mac_truck]

Google analytics is benign and something the website owners set up to gather statistics on its users...completely legit

[buffaloguy]

How ‘bout that brave new digital world all you millenial hipsters? Like it yet?

[usconservative]

If Facebook falls, then Google and Twitter will all fall too.

I hope that's true! Not for myself of course, for the social unrest it's going to cause!

OMG, people will actually have to TALK To each other FACE TO FACE rather than via a web browser!

[polymuser]

Lie with dogs, get fleas.

[freedumb2003]

>>Google knows your every search and resulting visited website.<<

if you don;t sign on then they only know the originating IP address.

They can say it is probably you but with all ISPs using DNS you can say it ain’t you.

Delete them cookies BTW. Daily if not hourly.

[Mears]

bfl

[Drew68]

I wonder of Google has the digital pics of my son when he was a baby and toddler? The hard drive I had them on crashed and I lost everything. I'd love to have them back!

Help me out, Google!

[Don W]

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