{"id":3327,"date":"2014-11-19T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:13:01","slug":"google-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/google-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"532\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3328 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/googlebrother.jpg\" alt=\"googlebrother\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/googlebrother.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/googlebrother-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Want to know how Google Brother sees you?<\/h1>\n<p>Google attempts to create a basic profile of you, your age, gender, interests.<br \/>\nThey use this data to serve you relevant ads. You can review how Google sees you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\/\" data->https:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Google also listens and records your conversations!! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/google-voice-search-records-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html?cmpid=facebook-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Learn how and listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<address><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/locationhistory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3351 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-13.12.14.png\" alt=\"These are my movements for the last 30 days as seen by google...\" width=\"710\" height=\"347\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-13.12.14.png 710w, https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-13.12.14-320x156.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n<h1>Find out your location history<\/h1>\n<p>If you use Android, your mobile device may be sending your location as well as velocity data to Google. You can see your entire location history and export it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/locationhistory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/locationhistory\" data->https:\/\/maps.google.com\/locationhistory<\/a><\/p>\n<address><a href=\"https:\/\/history.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-2010.jpg\" alt=\" St\u00e9fan - http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/st3f4n\/3951143570\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-2010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-2010-320x207.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n<h1>Find out your entire Google Search history<\/h1>\n<p>Google saves every single search you have ever done.<br \/>\nOn top of that, they record every Google ad you have clicked on.<\/p>\n<p>This log is available to you here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/history.google.com\/\" data->https:\/\/history.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/images.duckduckgo.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Map of internet - https:\/\/www.shodan.io\/\" width=\"710\" height=\"436\" title=\"\"><\/a>Find out every device that has accessed your Google account<\/h1>\n<p>If you worry that someone else might be using your account, you can find a list of all devices that have accessed your Google account, their IP address and approximate location here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/activity\" data->https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/activity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/permissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-google-1998.gif\" alt=\"logo-google-1998\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Find out all the apps and extensions that are accessing your Google data<\/h1>\n<p>This is a list of all the apps that have any type of access to your data.<br \/>\nYou can see the exact type of permissions granted to the app and revoke access to your data here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/permissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/permissions\" data->https:\/\/security.google.com\/settings\/security\/permissions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/takeout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/in-box.gif\" alt=\"in-box\" width=\"134\" height=\"80\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Export all of your data out of Google<\/h1>\n<p>Google let\u2019s you export all your data: bookmarks, emails, contacts, drive files, profile info, your youtube videos, photos and more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/takeout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/takeout\" data->https:\/\/www.google.com\/takeout<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-google.gif\" alt=\"logo-google\" width=\"399\" height=\"312\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/h1>\n<address>Thanks for sharing Pedro Calero, originally published at <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudfender.com\/post\/102607665327\/6-links-that-will-show-you-what-google-knows-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudfender.com\/post\/102607665327\/6-links-that-will-show-you-what-google-knows-about-you\" data->blog.cloudfender.com<\/a>, hacked by Gordon Langley<\/address>\n<address>Storm Trooper photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/st3f4n\/3951143570http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St\u00e9fan<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Map of internet by: <a href=\"www.shodan.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.shodan.io<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Meejacons by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meejacons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.meejacons.com<\/a><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-google.gif\" alt=\"logo-google\" width=\"399\" height=\"312\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>How to avoid all of this?<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3382 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-23.27.27.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-20 at 23.27.27\" width=\"240\" height=\"195\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can take care of advertisement using ad-blockers or script blockers such as <a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/noscript.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NoScript<\/a>. NoScript will not only block ads but also Google Analytics, Fonts, embeds and more automatically and with options to enable each script or embed individually should the need arise.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you clear cookies &#8212; including LSO &#8212; and your browsing history regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Log out of Google whenever you do not use your account, or use a secondary browser for specific Internet activities such as playing YouTube videos or searching on the Internet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2011\/08\/05\/how-to-create-multiple-firefox-profiles-for-specific-tasks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">or profiles in Firefox<\/a> which works well for that purpose).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google offers some means to opt-out of data collection for specific services. You can get a browser add-on to <a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tools.google.com\/dlpage\/gaoptout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opt-out of Google Analytics<\/a> data tracking or <a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opt-out of personalized Adsense ads<\/a>, but there is no option to opt-out of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2014\/06\/02\/google-tracking-avoid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ghacks <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meejacons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/in-box-v001_2.gif\" alt=\"in-box-v001_2\" width=\"134\" height=\"80\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what google sees, hear what google hears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,1,27,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fluffy-tech-tips","category-random-mix","category-sign-of-the-week","category-tools",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}