Google- We KNOW when you've been bad or good and keep the evidence...

[schuck6566]

The following are taken from google's browser privacy policy which I'll link to also.https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

"When you create a Google Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to a Google Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to communicate with Google or receive updates about our services."

"We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access Google services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low." (So they always know where you are,what you're on and what you're doing)

"The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request."(If you get online they know how and who provided access and when)

"We collect this information when a Google service on your device contacts our servers — for example, when you install an app from the Play Store or when a service checks for automatic updates. If you’re using an Android device with Google apps, your device periodically contacts Google servers to provide information about your device and connection to our services. This information includes things like your device type and carrier name, crash reports, which apps you've installed, and, depending on your device settings, other information about how you’re using your Android device."(And the only way I see to stop this blatant invasion of privacy by them is to turn off all access to the internet for google services.)

"We collect information about your activity in our services,The activity information we collect may include:

Terms you search for

Videos you watch

Views and interactions with content and ads

Voice and audio information

Purchase activity

People with whom you communicate or share content

Activity on third-party sites and apps that use our services

Chrome browsing history you’ve synced with your Google Account

If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect call and message log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, sender and recipient email address, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types and volumes of calls and messages." (And this is just the stuff BEFORE the info they collect when you're going to bury the body...U know that GPS stuff.ROTFL)

 

Edit: My wife said I should include that I'm paranoid about them watching me, but am I REALLY paranoid when they are watching?

Edited Monday at 14:00 by schuck6566

[Kaz]

I've said it before, Google is too big to be ignored by the CIA. 

 

I would love a de-googled android, but so far the 'best' version is GraphineOS, which conveniently only runs on a Google Pixel.  Christopher Domas already told us that hardware can have a built in back door.  Sadly Domas quit talking about hardware backdoors after Intel hired him.  I highly suspect the Pixel is in that category, although Naomi Campbell says that's crazy and is not possible.  If I had the skill set, I would set out to prove it.  It's just too convenient that Graphine will only run on 1 device. They say it's because secure boot is only offered on the Pixel...

 

The FBI's honeypot of Anom phone, and how heavily people were charged for operating the phone network, shows that there is no tolerance for a non-surveilled phone.  Go directly to jail, do not pass go.  Supposedly the network was entirely used by criminals, but I think they are overlooking the fact that some people are just privacy focused.  Arrests were not done in America because it would have required a judge to sign off on a mass surveillance warrant that is clearly unconstitutional, but it never stopped them from collecting that information. and turning it over to European countries.

 

There is this really thin line, where a private company can spy on people but the government can't.  However, that private company can choose to hand over the data to the government.  Is that information admissible in court?  Amazon Ring cameras seem to think so...  If Google has accepted government contracts behind closed doors, (Like PRISM), at what point do their actions become illegal?  Perhaps there is a reason we don't see this stuff showing up in court.  Tracking Epstein contacts could be easily done if they weren't shielded by intelligence networks.  There was a group of citizens that set out to do that, with FOIA requests, and a law quickly got passed that only Congress could do it.  Those citizens had concerns about releasing potentially uninvolved names and felt the information needed more substantiating, which was conveniently blocked as soon as people found out what they were doing.  

 

Remember, Google is tracking BSSID wifi networks and geo-locations.  Even if you have location turned off, if you have wifi on, they know where you are.  Supposedly that's a setting that can be turned off in improved location accuracy, but I suspect that's more about reporting where BSSID's are located than where the phone is.  Google also offers bluetooth mapping, which was a contact tracking service that started making the news during the COVID era.

 

There's a reason a judge has ruled Alphabet a monopoly.  They are expecting google to sell off it's android and browser investments.  Will it make a difference if a Black Rock subsidiary is the buyer?  

 

I wish this world weren't built on war and division, because some of this tech is legitimately cool.  At a certain point, all information is freely available and there really are no secrets.  Our understanding of quantum entanglement is starting to prove that.  The only way to avoid 'skynet', the electronic surveillance net, is to go touch grass.