All the data the likes of Google and Facebook collect about you

[Lord Ba'al]

This article might be of interest to some.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...l-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy

 

[Lord Ba'al]

Google is creating an archive for me of all the data they have on me. It might take hours or days.

 

[Lord Ba'al]

My archive is ready. 26.52 GB!!!

 

[Lord Ba'al]

I should note that upon further inspection I found that it doesn't appear to be as bad as I thought. The largest chunk of this 26.52 GB archive is taken up by the following.

Youtube - 9.45 GB
Mail - 4.72 GB
Google Photos - 10.2 GB
Drive - 3.79 GB

This is all stuff which I've stored there myself over the course of time. There is of course a whole bunch of meta-data, but that hardly takes up any space in the archive compared to the files.

So after subtracting the above files from the total archive, that means that Google has collected -1.64 GB of data on me. That's right, that's a minus-sign. Go figure!

 

[Rac80]

LOL Well, I am sure that they are finding loads of boring stuff on me. I streamed LDS general conference yesterday, looked up a new recipe for lamb & teased my sister on Facebook abt the amount of snow my hometown still has! have at people!

If you expect privacy, stay off the internet!