What Google Knows About YOU! Its Scarier Than I thought!

Originally posted by JameSimon
TextI really don't care if NSA or whatever are checking my internet comments and emails. I don't have anything to hide.
Android phone: Check
2 Gmail accounts: Check
Always logged in: Check

Not at the moment you dont, wait until they decide that you riding that motorbike x years ago is now illegal and retrospective punishment

I guess I ask myself, what does it really matter?
The government has access to ALL this information is you ever filled out a credit application. The internet just gives it to them faster. If an agency really wants to find out about you, believe me, they can. Do I really care if the NSA see that I shop using Overstock? Or that I search Sowden? Or that I read Drudge and or Huffington Post and occasionally look at porn? Frankly, I don't really give #.
Trust me, if your doing anything illegal, either on or off the internet, they will catch you sooner or later. It's not like the 70's anymore where you could get away with almost anything. Those days are over. If your'e scared of Big Brother watching you, the only way to get away from them is to get off the grid (no computers, no phones, etc.) and move to Alaska. But, they will know when you left (airline ticket or passport activity leaving/entering through Canada), and they will have a pretty good idea where you went, unless you use cash, but then they will still have surveillance videos to track your last known position. The point is, there are things that we can keep private like paperwork in a safe, etc., and, if you put it out on the web, is open to the public for the most part (your banking transactions are usually VERY secure unless someone purposefully through theft of loss puts it out there). I mean, your banking info has been traveling over telephone lines for 20 years (they used to have to fly cancelled checks all over the country, every night - they don't do that anymore). I think people are getting excited over nothing. This type of data transfer (our personal info) is being sent to companies all in the interest of marketing. What in the world does the government need with my internet habits? The answer is NOTHING (unless I'm using it to build a bombs and I know, this post will now get extra scrutiny and I don't really care. Frankly, if some is building a device that could hurt me or my loved ones, I want the government to hunt them down and kill them. That's their JOB!). The real reason the "government" is tracking this data is to use for marketing. How can they try to squeeze more dollars out of ME. That;s the only reason. Just look at how our government has evolved. Its not here to support our well-being as its original intent. It's whole existence is to further economic wealth (if that means starting a war to boost the economy, so be it, of which, I hole heartily disagree with). So as far as being "scared" because Google knows I visited PornHub a month a go? I'm not (I feel a bit ashamed and disgusted with my self, but that's a different story).

Google even knows what comes out your @ss

Originally posted by pavil
reply to post by MystikMushroom

 

Nice attempt, but a futile gesture on your part. TPTB already have all the data on you they need. unless you are using semaphore and passenger pigeons, there is no way the NSA doesn't have a full dossier on you. The age of Big Brother is already upon us.

edit on 14-8-2013 by pavil because: (no reason given)

True, but you don't need to add to their "file". People change over time, and if you don't allow them to keep collecting data, their "dossier" will become outdated and worthless.

Originally posted by MystikMushroom
This is why I:

1. Don't have an android phone
2. Don't use my gmail for anything other than stuff that will send me spam
3. Don't log in to google when I browse the web
4. Refuse to link my youtube account under my real name
5. Don't log into youtube unless I am uploading a video
6. Don't use the play store for anything, at all
7. Don't use google wallet (never have)
8. Don't allow google to store my passwords (never have)
9. Have location services turned off
10. Don't use google docs

I realize though that the majority of the zombified masses aren't tech-savy at all, and for them these features are "totally awesome!" and "save me so much time!".

That's the thing, all of these data collection points are sold to everyone as convenience tools. People don't bother to check their settings, understand where their data is going or how it is used.

If you are creeped out by Google, don't give them anything to be creeped out about.

So what do you use for email? Just curious. Oh and what search engine do you use? Cause I am pretty sure that unless you know direct addresses you are going to use a search engine and you think GOOGLE is the only one saving this info? LOL BING, Yahoo have all been doing this for years.

Nothing good is going to come of this.

reply to post by NoRegretsEver


Well what do you expect.
The Internet is not an explicitly private network.

Most of the stuff you send is in the clear.

This is like going walking down the street and expecting your walk to be private.

And also when you sign up for stuff there's an agreement. Which people don't read. If you actually looked in there you'd see that 3rd party sharing.

It's not scary. Since you agreed to everything when you signed up.

Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
reply to post by Iamschist

 

Well like I stated,. if it really concerns those that use the web,. the the real only alternative is to leave it behind. the thing is, movies like Minority Report, I Robot and Many others are a glimmer of our future, like it or not and unless the people do something about it it WILL keep grabbing control. Look at what Obama and bush have done to the American rights.. it is all slipping away.

I used to order books at my local college campus - they used to insist on getting your E-mail address before putting the order through. Not that they ever sent a confirmation that the book had arrived.

Not overly worried personally.

I only use them for bog standard Email (although I did set up a Blog page for a game mod I was working on but its more or less dead in the water), which usually only amounts to purchase receipts and the odd subscribed email from a couple of websites (I dont think ive ever really used my Email ever for actual correspondence, yes im odd like that). I dont own any sort of smart phone and never will (hell ive never owned a cellphone and can count the number of times ive had to use one on one hand, honest truth), I dont use Chrome (and ive never let my browser save my password or usernames for anything anyway).

I do only ever use Google for searching and I use Youtube very regular but nothing to worry about there since I tend to have a rather small number of sites I look up or visit and my Youtube viewing habits tend to be kinda narrow.

So for me all up whatever Google has on me is probably less than half a page of really boring stuff (unless somehow video/PC games, game art and modding, D&D and cryptozoology are somehow red flag inducing)

I also tend to run my browser with most of the bells and whistles turned off and only ever turn em on when I really have to... oh and sandboxed so every session is a clean slate on my end.

I have to be sure to add that this is NOT like you clearing your history, even though Google has a "clear your history from the beginning" this is absolutely different, and even deeper than the regular "oh I hardly do anything on my browser" stuff.

Take a quick visit to the dashboard and see for yourself.

Peace, NRE.

And this is scary how?

I know some people are paranoid and think they can be hunted down in the end times, but consider WW2, no internet,no tracking, and still 6 million Jews rounded up.

Nothing to worry about unless you have stuff to hide...which I know most of you do.

reply to post by MadMax7


This is for those that care about privacy, and if they dont want their information shared like that they have the option to remove themselves.

NO this does not mean people are just paranoid, or have something to hide.

And how you found a way to add the rounding up of the jews to this... well bravo, that I did not see coming.

NRE.

reply to post by NoRegretsEver

You have no idea. But and yet even with all that data it is pretty meaningless without a "will" behind it, sure you got companies and corporations and groups, those however are just appendages of it all, and in time the human being will become and appendage to technology and something higher then it. And guess what they will likely not even be aware of it, but yes generally when something of a higher order or more intelligent or better at everything humans can do comes into the picture.

Like everything else in history there is an element of displacing and supplanting humanity ie becoming obsolete, in the animal kingdom and nature humans call this becoming extinct. But off course you have people who want to be half man half machine, and everything in between, a sort of sociobiology and everybody has plans and dreams. Yet well, none of those may be necessary or prudent...So we shall see. "As above and so bellow" If you have caught a glimpse of what is really above and what is really bellow, those may just be the most scariest words ever uttered.

But google is just a search engine, merely a tool like everything else. The whole of the internets does have a moto you know. Its moto is...All your base are belong to us.

Pretty much all of that is stuff the person CHOSE to store there. If you intentionally add your CC to google wallet you know they have the information.

Other than that, companies such as Facebook keep all the same information, and sell it linking it to your actual person. When Google uses your information they link it to an anonymous number that doesn't reveal who you are.

There's no reason to just opt out of google services just because you're being monitored. Don't do anything with google's services that you wouldn't want someone else to know about.

Want to go somewhere that you wouldn't want someone to know about? Don't take your phone.
Want to look up something on the internet you wouldn't want to haunt you? don't use google services
Want to live in the stoneage out of fear? Don't use modern devices or services.

You can have your cake and eat it too, you just have to be smart.

reply to post by MystikMushroom


INDEED.

I'm considering dropping gmail entirely.

I was relieved on checking the dashboard that they have mostly 0's in the various categories.

I do try and minimize what Google collects, can collect. It's bad enough that the oligarchy has been collecting everything on everyone for 40+ years.

Sigh.

This is all true. And this is why there are some things I will not do online, as I know it is not something I would want the government to know. The invasion of privacy is outstanding, and it is getting worse. Unfortunately, here is what I predict for our future:

The government will claim that they use this kind of data, which they too collect, to oust terrorists and criminals. First of all, the government should never be allowed to invade the privacy of its citizens because it is not good enough to do its job in the first place. If it cannot catch the criminals without invading everyone's privacy, then we need to fire these people. Not to mention the US Constitution is the law of the land, and it has been blatantly disregarded in the past decade or more. Someone should go to jail for this, because it is a huge crime, worse than terrorism in my opinion, for they are destroying the very freedoms and fabric of our country, while terrorists can only wish to do the same.

In the future this type of data is going to be used to find and punish dissenters. NOT criminals, but simply those who are like me, calling for the arrests of people like Bush, Cheney, Obama, Holder, etc...People who have broken our most valuable laws and standards. And just about the majority of Congress as well, among others. They have already started making true patriots like myself the enemy, and they will begin using the word terrorist to define dissenters. They may even stage false flag attacks like they've already done.

Their previous false flags have been against Middle Eastern terrorists, giving a pretext for unjust wars. They actually probably don't care about terrorism all that much, rather they use that as an excuse for their true goals, which is to make money lots of times. That is what happened when we invaded two countries in the ME. Many people, including the former president's and VP's companies, or companies they are affiliated with. Conflict of interest does not do justice to what I am describing.

Anyway, so they will keep ramping up security to the point that they will know everything that everyone does, and can watch anybody they want to at any time of the day, no matter where they are. Our online freedoms being taken away are just a step in a larger process. I don't know if there is some mastermind doing all this behind the scenes, but it cannot be argued that those pushing these things in the government seem to have the same end goal. THAT scares me.

The truth of the matter is that our Founding Fathers explicitly told us that when our government fails to honor our Constitution and other laws, we have an obligation to depose these illegitimate leaders. They made themselves illegitimate the first time they voted against the Constitution, or they instituted some policy that is not lawful. Bush and Obama both did this multiple times in their presidency. So realize that when they start calling people DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, which is a term everyone is going to be familiar with in the near future, that it is actually the government who are the terrorists. And they will definitely stage false flag attacks and blame it on domestic terrorism, simply because they want to institute something similar to martial law, if not martial law itself, because that way they have total control over us, or either they will know everything that anyone does.

This may stop certain criminals, but it is not worth it. They don't need to throw out our Constitution to stop real terrorists and criminals. They need to do their jobs within the constraints of the law. Those who enforce the law are not above the law, and they should be held to a much higher standard since they are tasked with enforcement of our most precious regulations. I know that they would love for people like me to take violent action, as that would give them an excuse to do what they will eventually do in the future...Take away more freedoms.

This exact type of scenario was described by our Founding Fathers, in multiple letters and other documents, and it was outlined what a government could potentially do to take away our freedoms. Everyone should realize what is happening, and band together to stop it. The only way we will have success in doing what we were tasked with doing by our Founders, is to have a large group. Individual actions will never work. Look at how large OWS was. The government and police were actually doing all sorts of things behind the scenes, and even on the ground there, attempting to stop the movement. They are scared of the people. WHY? Because they know that what they are doing is not Constitutional, and they want to keep people ignorant and in the dark. That is why they use false flags in the first place. They know if they didn't, the people would rise up. If they can convince the majority of something that is not true, they can get away with it.

Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
I have to be sure to add that this is NOT like you clearing your history, even though Google has a "clear your history from the beginning" this is absolutely different, and even deeper than the regular "oh I hardly do anything on my browser" stuff.

Take a quick visit to the dashboard and see for yourself.

Peace, NRE.

This is only my opinion, but I feel this whole thing is more about watching sites with a large amount of (like-minded) traffic. People who might be trying to organize for protests (or anything anti-gov't.) will be stopped before getting anything up and running.

Propaganda is at an all time high with people waking up to the false-ness of our leaders, who are always going to stay at least several steps ahead of the population standing up in large numbers. Why else are the media calling out CT's, which started getting much worse in the past year-unless they knew that people were beginning to listen and understand that not all CT are nutters...

reply to post by JiggyPotamus

Everyone should realize what is happening, and band together to stop it. The only way we will have success in doing what we were tasked with doing by our Founders, is to have a large group.

Exactly .. and this is why (I feel) they are monitoring us in the first place. Watching to make sure that we can't organize in large numbers.

It was only a couple months ago that I read a thread (but can't remember who authored it), stating that our gov't were making it illegal to form large groups of protestors who stood against gov't. Not the gov't per se', but against anything we thought of as reducing our freedoms.

I can't think straight at the moment (lack of sleep/brain fog), but I do recall reading a thread only a month or two relating to what I mentioned in last paragraph. And, it makes sense to me that our gov't would be watching and collecting info on the internet for large groups of like-minded folks rather than the reasons that they are claiming. After all, would terrorists not have their own ways of speaking that wouldn't make it easy for anyone who might be watching?

Makes more sense that they would be watching to stop an up-rise.

More than likely I'm a paranoid schizophrenic, still I really don't give a # who knows what about me. My first response to this disorder was to just not keep secrets, works most of the time, but during an episode I still don an aluminum foil helmet and accuse anyone knowing my middle name as spying on me even if it is my mother, or my neighbors Akita- Hatori Hanso, who speaks fluent Japanese and constantly threatens to have the Yakuza murder me in my sleep.