So Google is mapping my every move?

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  • July 14, 2015 at 9:39 am #27248
    PA Ram
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    Call me ignorant.

    I had no idea this happens. Really. None.

    I found out today, because the other day I got a message on my phone(Android)that Google Awesome had changed a photo of mine with some sort of special effect. Than I realized that Google was just collecting my photos(without my knowledge) and I was just reading how to disable the feature when I also found out about all of the other privacy stuff Google does.

    So one of those things is “location”. I went to a thing called Google Dashboard and signed in and there’s a feature called, “location”. So anyway–it’s a map with dots and lines of every place I’ve been, every day. If I click on a different day I get that day’s activities.

    Of course it’s using my phone to track me.

    But this is crazy to me. Yes–now that I know I can take steps to change it(I hope)but the fact is I did not KNOW they were doing it.

    It amazes me how little privacy there is anymore. I can just see Google collecting my next colonoscopy photos for “GoogleColon”. Colon recognition technology.

    Is it me or does something seem wrong about all of this? Is it just the price of technology?

    Is it just something we have to accept in today’s world?

    I’m not tech savvy. I admit that. I’m a slow learner with all of this.

    But this just feels wrong.

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    July 14, 2015 at 9:41 am #27249
    PA Ram
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    Just posted the above on ROD but wanted to share it here.

    Here’s how to turn it off, if it’s on.

    https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?source=gsearch

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    July 14, 2015 at 9:43 am #27250
    PA Ram
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    http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-delete-and-disable-your-google-location-history/

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    July 14, 2015 at 10:21 am #27251
    bnw
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    Facebook is another one. Voluntary information and interactions stored for all time to make domestic spying cheaper and easier.

    Opt out of mapping? I wouldn’t believe it. What a way to embolden the newly enlightened. The tracking is still there just you can’t see it. Think about it. Why would you need to see where you have been?

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    July 14, 2015 at 11:04 am #27254
    PA Ram
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    I know. I should know where I’ve been, I hope. There’s a lot of power with collecting personal information.And money. Oh–you want to sell protein supplements? Well, here’s some information on people who go to the gym regularly. We’ll sell it to you.

    Yep.

    The future.

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

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