He didn't mention it specifically, but Google SEARCH is another of their spying tools. I switched to DuckDuckGo as my default.
I found the article he mentioned....
Free Isn't Freedom: How Silicon Valley Tricks Us. Pulling the curtain back on Google, which commands more of our data than any other tech company
Robert Epstein, PhD (@DrREpstein), is Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California. He has published fifteen books on A.I. and other topics, and is the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.
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For personal data privacy, Dr.Epstein wrote this... Seven Simple Steps Toward Online Privacy In a nutshell... 1) Junk GMail. He uses ProtonMail.com because of its Swiss privacy laws 2) Switch Search Engines. Google’s search engine is the best, but is also the most aggressive spying tool ever invented. He uses http://StartPage.com because they don't track you. 3) Kill Chrome. he uses http://Firefox.com 4) Axe Android. he recommends Apple, Microsoft or Blackberry 5) Heave Home. Google Home is recording everything in your home and sending it back to headquarters. 6) Clear Cache and Cookies regularly, and he shows you how 7) Pick a Proxy or VPN. He likes http://PrivateInternetAccess.com he also recommends using http://DNSLeakTest.com or http://BrowserLeaks.com first to test your security
I don’t really care.
On a side note, I’ve heard that one way terrorists can conspire and communicate is to use a single Gmail account to which everyone has the password, and just create drafts that are never sent. Then each member can log on at his convenience and get all the information from the drafts that have been created since the last time.
Everything I send via Gmail I assume is being read by the world, or I don’t use it. Do I care if Google knows that I play in the church band this sunday?
The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks
Why do they want to do that?
What could social networks be used for in the hands of government? Consider:
Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
How will such capabilities be used now?
How They Hunt
Is it already too late?...
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." US Constitution, Amendment IV.
All email is very insecure. You shouldn’t put anything in email unless you’d be okay with random strangers reading it. This is especially true of e.g., your SSN, credit card numbers, passwords or PINs of any kind, etc.
I tried explaining that last sentence, basically, to a few, years ago. They pretty much laughed and scoffed.
One guy, who thought himself pretty savvy, was trying to put the whole organization on Google Docs. I told him it was insane to put the whole company “out there” like that. He smirked. Sure, turn over the entire company to a group of someones you don’t know. I asked, what’s the benefit for someone to provide such far-reaching services and storage for free? There has to be an angle.
Of course, they didn’t think the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation are going to happen, either. When the cashless society is in full swing, he’ll probably cheer that on, too.
Epstein has done important work on using search engines to manipulate elections invisibly. Manipulation by order of results, by autocomplete. A starting point is his webpage http://drrobertepstein.com/index.php/internet-studies.
Dr Epstein has impeccable establishment credentials. Former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. His work on elections was published in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA. He can’t be dismissed as a mere Deplorable.
“The New Mind Control” mentions work by others on a different way to manipulate elections invisibly. Facebook could identify the political leanings of many of its users, and send out “get out the vote” reminders only to those users who agree with Facebook’s politics. A small effect, around half a percent in the experiment, but maybe important in a close election.
Epstein’s article in POLITICO “How Google could rig the 2016 election” has a good summary near the end on “the gold standards of research in the behavioral sciences.” How to do these things right, explained in one paragraph for a general audience.
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