Is the FTC going to do something about the "unacceptable"?
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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Yeah, no fucking shit. Could have told you that without the need to spend 100's of millions of dollars on the investigation. Here's a free one for you. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, listen to phone calls and ease drop on conversations near home assistants too. The fact that you get an ad for the thing you just talked about 10 min ago should prove that to even the dumbest asshole.
Took them long enough. The ad networks, and companies like Google, know more about me, than my own immediate family. My preferences, my complete location history, my hardware info, and everything in between. The fact that this is allowed to begin with is absolutely mental
The feature is going away but on Google Maps they have a Timeline section where you can go back and see exactly where you've been each day. I found it useful when I traveled in Japan to see the names of shops and restaurants I stopped at but then realized... Google has known everywhere I've been for over a decade now. Hmm.
I think it’s a nice feature, when it’s explicitly opt-in, and gives you control over what it’s doing. We all know how Google handles that
This is one of those features that I'd love if it wasn't controlled by an evil organization.
And all that data probably takes up less room than a few pictures, could easily be stored locally, and encrypted locally before backing up on a server. But why give individuals control and privacy over their own behavior and history when you can sell it to anyone and keep the profits for yourself? /s
You can use “Google Takeout” to download all location data. It has all coordinates and what you were doing (e.g. walking, driving) with timestamps.
They know everyone's fetish which feels kind of creepy and weird.
Let's hope they also do something meaningful about it.
A few million dollars in fines will not fix it. Making it a felony, convicting and punishing the people responsible (extraditing them if necessary), might.
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