https://www.google.com/settings/takeout - Everything you've ever done on ANY Google platform download. https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 - Location history of 3 years back. https://history.google.com/history/audio - Audio history (whatever you asked Google Now) I only found this out today... I was kind of baffled to be honest, share thoughts. There are probably more things Google keeps, but these are the ones we KNOW it keeps.
I like to worry more about how they know the shapes of everyone's houses, and the inside layout of many shops.
The joys of using an apple phone. None of this shit is tracked via google. Not saying that Apple don't but what I don't know won't hurt me right!?
Unless you have the google apps such as maps, or gmail. As well has using google as your search engine. Think your safe because you didn't login? Google this "Browser Fingerprinting" and think again.
Why would we be "safe?" As long as they can make money off spying on us and making us less secure, they will
There is a reason why you actually should read the License Agreement. It says so there about it beeing used for stuff, and since 99% of the people just agrees without reading you can't really make a case about it.
Yes, they do not log such things without us knowing, everyone is used to click I Agree on the license agreement, ToS and etc. Such things are a really good read aside from manuals when in the bathroom doing business.
Takeout is supposed to be a plus. You can't 'leave' a lot of services because they provide no way to download all the content that you have submitted to the service, but Takeout lets you do that. At least Google lets you disable these things via https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard Naturally Google is still going to internally store aggregated or personal data, but data is useful is from (1) law enforcement requests, (2) improvement of algorithms and (3) making business decisions, so it is not surprising that the vast number of organizations collect data. Since Google is full of software engineers, it's a walk in the park.
