Social media companies engaged in 'vast surveillance,' FTC finds, calling status quo 'unacceptable'
Social media companies engaged in 'vast surveillance,' FTC finds, calling status quo 'unacceptable'
The FTC report looked at Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance, Discord, Reddit and WhatsApp.
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Took them long enough. The ad networks, and companies like Google, know more about me, than my own immediate family. My preferences, my complete location history, my hardware info, and everything in between. The fact that this is allowed to begin with is absolutely mental
They know everyone's fetish which feels kind of creepy and weird.
The feature is going away but on Google Maps they have a Timeline section where you can go back and see exactly where you've been each day. I found it useful when I traveled in Japan to see the names of shops and restaurants I stopped at but then realized... Google has known everywhere I've been for over a decade now. Hmm.
I think it’s a nice feature, when it’s explicitly opt-in, and gives you control over what it’s doing. We all know how Google handles that
This is one of those features that I'd love if it wasn't controlled by an evil organization.
And all that data probably takes up less room than a few pictures, could easily be stored locally, and encrypted locally before backing up on a server. But why give individuals control and privacy over their own behavior and history when you can sell it to anyone and keep the profits for yourself? /s
You can use “Google Takeout” to download all location data. It has all coordinates and what you were doing (e.g. walking, driving) with timestamps.