Where You Live Based on How You Talk

Want to freak yourself extinct? I'm going to show honourable how such of your selective information like Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising IT.

Google knows where you've been

Google stores your location (if you have location trailing turned on) every time you turn on your earphone. You privy see a timeline of where you've been from the very prototypal day you started using Google on your phone.

Click on this link to see your have data: google.com/maps/timeline?…

Here is all place I have been in the last 12 months in Ireland. You can see the hour that I was in the location and how long it took me to stick to that location from my previous one.

'A Google map of every place I've been in Ireland this year.' Photograph: Dylan Curran

Google knows everything you've ever searched – and deleted

Google stores search history across complete your devices. That can mean that, smooth if you erase your hunting story and telephone set account on one gimmick, it may stillness make data saved from unusual devices.

Detent on this link to visualise your own data: myactivity.Google.com/myactivity

Google has an advertisement visibility of you

Google creates an advertisement visibility supported on your information, including your location, gender, age, hobbies, career, interests, relationship condition, imaginable weightiness (need to lose 10lb in one day?) and income.

Click connected this contact to see your own data: google.com/settings/ads/

Google knows every last the apps you use

Google stores information on all app and denotation you use. They have intercourse how often you use them, where you use them, and who you use them to interact with. That means they experience World Health Organization you babble to on Facebook, what countries are you speaking with, what time you last to log Z's.

Click connected this link to realize your own data: security.Google.com/settings/secur…

Google has every of your YouTube history

Google stores every of your YouTube account, thus they probably know whether you're going to be a parent soon, if you're a conservative, if you're a innovative, if you're Individual, Christian, or Moslem, if you're feeling depressed or suicidal, if you're anorexic …

Click on this associate to see your own data: youtube.com/feed/history/s…

The information Google has on you can sate millions of Word documents

Google offers an alternative to download all of the data it stores about you. I've requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.

This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Beat back files, all of the above entropy, your YouTube videos, the photos you've taken along your phone, the businesses you've bought from, the products you've bought done Google …

They also have data from your calendar, your Google stamping groun sessions, your location history, the music you take heed to, the Google books you've purchased, the Google groups you're in, the websites you've created, the phones you've closely-held, the pages you've shared, how umpteen stairs you walk in a day …

Dog on this link to learn your own data: google.com/portable

Facebook has reams and reams of data happening you, overly

Facebook offers a similar option to download all your information. Mine was roughly 600MB, which is roughly 400,000 Word documents.

This includes every message you've always sent surgery been sent, every file you've ever conveyed or been sent, entirely the contacts in your phone, and all the audio frequency messages you've of all time sent operating room been conveyed.

Click Hera to see your data: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467

'A snapshot of the data Facebook has saved on me.' Photograph: Bob Dylan Curran

Facebook stores everything from your stickers to your login localization

Facebook too stores what IT thinks you might atomic number 4 interested in settled off the things you've liked and what you and your friends talk of (I apparently like the topic "girl").

Slightly pointlessly, they also store complete the stickers you've ever sent on Facebook (I have No theme wherefore they do this. It's just a joke at this stage).

They also store all time you log in to Facebook, where you logged in from, what time, and from what device.

And they store all the applications you've ever had connected to your Facebook account, thus they can estimate I'm fascinated in politics and web and lifelike design, that I was single between X and Y period with the installation of Touchwood, and I got a HTC phone in November.

(Side note, if you have Windows 10 installed, this is a picture of just the secrecy options with 16 different sub-menus, which have wholly of the options enabled past default when you install Windows 10)

Privacy options in Facebook. — Privacy options in Windows 10. Photograph: Dylan Curran

They can access your webcam and mike

The data they collect includes tracking where you are, what applications you have installed, when you use them, what you use them for, access to your webcam and microphone at some meter, your contacts, your emails, your calendar, your call history, the messages you send and receive, the files you download, the games you play, your photos and videos, your music, your search history, your browsing history, even what radio receiver stations you listen to.

Here are some of the different ways Google gets your information

I got the Google Takeout document with all my information, and this is a crack-up of all the different ways they get your information.

My Google Takeout document. — 'My Google Takeout food document.' Photograph: Dylan Curran

Here's the search history document, which has 90,000 different entries, even exhibit the images I downloaded and the websites I accessed (I showed the Pirate Bay section to show how much damage this selective information can do).

data — 'My search history document has 90,000 contrary entries.' Photograph: Dylan Curran

Google knows which events you attended, and when

Here's my Google Calendar off-and-on polish, showing all the events I've ever added, whether I really attended them, and what clip I attended them at (this part is when I went for an interview for a marketing job, and what prison term I arrived).

And Google has information you deleted

This is my Google Motor, which includes files I expressly deleted including my résumé, my monthly budget, and all the encipher, files and websites I've ever made, and even my PGP private key, which I deleted, that I use to encrypt emails.

Google can know your physical exertion regular

This is my Google Fit, which shows all of the steps I've ever taken, any time I walked anyplace, and all the times I've recorded whatever speculation/yoga/workouts I've through with (I deleted this information and revoked Google Fit's permissions).

And they have age' worth of photos

This is all the photos ever soft on my earpiece, wiped out fallen by class, and includes metadata of when and where I took the photos

Google has all email you ever sent

Every email I've ever sent, that's been sent to me, including the ones I deleted or were classified as Spam.

And there is more

I'll scarcely do a truncated summary of what's in the thousands of files I received under my Google Activity.

First, every Google Ad I've ever viewed or clicked on, every app I've ever launched operating theatre used and when I did IT, every website I've ever visited and what time I did it at, and every app I've ever installed or searched for.

They also have every image I've ever searched for and saved, all location I've always searched for or clicked on, every intelligence article I've ever searched for operating room read, and all single Google search I've made since 2009. And and then finally, every YouTube video I've always searched for Oregon viewed, since 2008.

This information has millions of villainous uses. You say you're not a terrorist. Then how come you were googling Isis? Work at Google and you're suspicious of your married woman? Perfect, just look up her location and search history for the parting 10 years. Manage to gain access to someone's Google chronicle? Perfect, you have a written record diary of everything that person has gone the last 10 eld.

This is peerless of the craziest things about the stylish age. We would ne'er Lashkar-e-Toiba the government or a corporation assign cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. Simply we just went ahead and did it ourselves because – to hell with it! – I want to watch artful dog videos.

A subtitle was corrected on 28 March 2018 to replace "privacy options in Facebook" with "privacy options in Windows 10".

Dylan Curran is a information adviser and web developer, WHO does extensive research into spreading technical sentience and improving extremity etiquette
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Where You Live Based on How You Talk

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy