Privacy

How much of my information does google get from my Android phone?
Do they have my contacts? My messages? Conversations on the phone or through apps like LINE?

Do you have phone numbers of those friends?
Have you emailed your friends or have them as contacts on some email account?
Do you have some social media with an old school, hobbies or work attached?

>How much of my information does google get from my Android phone?
Position, contacts, photos (metadata only if you disabled backups), calendar dates, they are able to remotely unlock a turned on (but locked) phone on a police request etc.
Using GAPPS is fucking retarded.

>there should be nothing about my private life since I've never searched for family/friends online
There's so much more that google analyses, google searches are just one of the ways they gather information.

A lot of websites use google API's or other google services indirectly, which pretty much gives this data to google as well.

Pretty much everything if you are logged into your google account. "Google Play Services" is the OS-based service that does it, if you feel that you want something that respects your privacy you can look into "no google" project OS'es on XDA.

>I have a Google account

>pull pants down
>surprised to find dicks in your anus

Even the porn I'm watching on my phone?

especially the porn you're watching on your phone

Especially the porn you're watching on your phone!

I'd say companies aren't doing enough with the data they've collected.
They should work with government law enforcement agencies to begin Minority Report style investigations, they can track down possible criminals before they do anything.
If they can match ads and people with you surely they can tell if you're depressed or involved in any criminal activities.

I want my dystopian world damn you.

>Google knows how often I jack off
>Google knows my sexual habits.
This is strangely arousing, does this count as exhibitionism?

yeah

if you've used your real name, address whatever along the youtube-gmail-android chain then google can connect all that to your browsing history anywhere you've been that uses google scripts.

>if you've used your real name,
other people already connected your real name with your phone number in their contact books, there is no escape unless you don't use Google at all on your phone.

Cred Forums people are generally complete retards when it comes to "muh privacy".

the retarded fearmongering over windows 10 and muh open sores etc.

people here think open source = silver bullet, what they don't understand is they're carrying around the real botnet in their pocket.

this, they have not only all the info you've inadvertedly given them, but they also have the info your friends are giving them about you.

Honestly, at this point, is it even possible not to be tracked like that? Can you live your life without google? Serious question.

> carrying around
> implying

I know just explaining it for people that don't understand that their Cred Forums/internet browsing is connected to their gmail, youtube, google etc accounts.

Its the other people, not you. They have your Name and phone number in their Android contact list, which oft course they sync to their Google account.

No matter how careful you yourself behave, Google will always know nearly everything about you as long as you have a phone number that other people know.

Same goes for Facebook really. Why do you think they wanted WhatsApp so bad?

>Google will always know nearly everything about you as long as you have a phone number that other people know.
What they know is your name and your number. The rest you have to give to them by using PlayServices or associating your number to a G+ account. They don't have what they don't get.

The simple fact that Google doesn't know shit about you is enough for them to infer a shitload of interesting things.

YOU have to give them nothing. One other person putting your address or birthday in the details of your contact on his phone is enough. But all of that is besides the point, since you can be identified by metadata alone. Your number's appearance in other people's contact list is then used for determining your social network, and possibly to help identify others. All without anyone giving any further details on another.

Have a random article that Bruce Schneider once linked to:
dailydot.com/layer8/surveillance-phone-metadata-identifiable-stanford-study/

>tfw safe from the bonnet because no friends

Google cares about big data, not about any individual user. Nice conspiracy theory though.

>One other person putting your address or birthday in the details of your contact on his phone is enough
Enough for what? What exactly do you think Google can find out about you when they have your date of birth? That's all just information to single you out from others with the same name, nothing they can sell to advertisement networks.
>Your number's appearance in other people's contact list is then used for determining your social network, and possibly to help identify others. All without anyone giving any further details on another.
That's exactly what I said, pal. But that's not valuable information in the sense that they can use it to "provide better services" (sell ads). I know Bruce Schneiders article and I know that he confirms what I just told you. Maybe we talked past each other. Just don't fall for some sort of tracking conspiracy where Google would go to great lengths (i.e. having individual people stalk you for data) just so they can sell you some stupid ads.

>date of birth
>your social network
>not valuable info they can use to sell ads
you clearly don't know shit
you're more likely to buy shit people your age buy
you're more likely to buy shit your friends bought

they don't need to be actively targeting you to get this info
but if they want to target you, they already have enough info to deduce everything you are

If you ever did anything using your private info online, Google knows it's you and has added you to their base data to be used with algorithms

Also, as soon as you open up google plus (if it hasn't been running already that is) its uploading all your locations, images and other identifying shit.

It doesn't have to be you, botnet affects everyone. They've probably given out enough info to connect you with them.

>date of birth
>your social network
>not valuable info they can use to sell ads
Ok how? How are they going to sell me ads without me giving them an Android platform or even a Google account?

They don't. It's just information they have, nothing they can effectively use.

pretty much this.
but if information about you keeps trickling, they will have enough info to associate your IP to that mass of information.

and what I've been saying this whole time is that they don't need to be trying to sell YOU ads.
they don't even need to be trying to get information about you.
even if you hide everything you are, they simply can deduce their way into knowing if they want.

see this picture. can you guess what did I paint over with a black box?

Also if you have a Facebook account, check the advert preferences for a list of things Facebook thinks you like.

>if you have a Facebook account
kill yourself

>I guess it's set up because I have a Google account
It's set up because you blindly click stuff. That's also how you leaked the info about your friends. It's not spying, it's people themselves giving their private info. No botnet compares to sheer human stupidity.

>falling for the kys meme
You don't need to have a Facebook account for Facebook to track you.
I just have it as a simple landing page for people looking for me, so I don't have to do the awkward "why don't you have a facebook? (oh my god are you a terrorist)" talk with my friends.

>with my friends
kill yourself

now that's what I call edgy

How does having big companies collect data about me affect my life?

>How does having big companies collect data about me affect my life?
it gives them the option to affect your life.
maybe they don't affect you right now, but it doesn't mean they won't when they want to do so.

Basically the same argument against gun control.

That data is used to inform and shape business decisions. Stuff that may not affect you alone or directly, but we are all affected nonetheless.

i really like this image. thank you

I don't get the relevance.

Even so, people who want to have guns aren't multi-billion corporations who have the congress eating money off of their hands and who have repeatedly proven that they would and could do literally anything to get more money.

Companies collecting your data could choose to affect your life with it.
The Government having information about your firearm ownership means they could choose to affect your life with it.

The question would be how much you'd trust the company/government.
/k/'s nightmare scenario is basically what happened to Australia.

>The Government having information about your firearm ownership means they could choose to affect your life with it.
oh, I thought you meant the "let nobody have guns because guns kill people" one

>The question would be how much you'd trust the company/government.
exactly.
my point is corporations stand to gain profit from exploiting you, but a government should be regulating them to the point they can't exploit you.
the USA is an obvious exception since the corporations are those who decide what is law.

I suggest we implement a strong AI as the world government.

Making AI government would be a terrible idea.

If you asked it to make the world a better place it would instantly reinstate slavery, bomb majority black cities and genocide half of Africa

go ask all the retards on Cred Forums installing linux because they think open source gives them privacy and makes them safe.

Tay for president

>How do they do it, Cred Forums? How is it that Google knows all there is about me? Even though I use fake names, fake addresses, and never shop online without a pre-paid card (and ship to a family post-box not under my name).
The contacts list on your phone which you are syncing to your account.

Let me explain something, OP. Whenever you login into your Google account, a cookie is placed on your browser. Now whenever a google script is ran, it searches your browser for that cookie and ties your activity to that account. That's why they know everything about you. And google scripts are common, just look at all the sites that use google-analytics.

>it would be a terrible idea
>only mentions good ideas

You think you know this board, Pa/g/eet?

>If you asked it to make the world a better place it would instantly reinstate slavery, bomb majority black cities and genocide half of Africa
it might do those, and if it would, that means doing those are the ethically right things to do, which would mean those things should be done anyway.