Google never stops surprising me. Today it was
reminding me about my flight to London that leaves tomorrow. Since
when has Google known about my flight plans? I still don't know how.
Well part of the reason why I'm not looking in to it is because a.)
I'm lazy, b.) don't really care (seriously I'm not that important, if
you want to spy me feel free to do so) and c.) if there are things I
don't like or understand I tend to ignore them.
I'm a person who never reads those small texts after
contracts so I won't be surprised if I hear some day that I have sold
my kidney and brains to Google so they can do some nice experiments.
I would be a little upset but not surprised.
Somehow Google manages to make me feel stalked and
"over protected" at the same time. When ever I use new
computer to sign in to my account I get emails everywhere telling me
that I have singed in at new computer. Don't worry Google, it's just
me.
I use Gmail, Google maps and Google drive almost
daily. I think three different apps from same corporation is quite
lot. And I'm sure there are more I'm using but just not realizing it.
For example Google search. I use it so often that I don't even
realize it is Google.
Is our privacy being compromised? Well most likely
yes. In future probably even more. My solution to this problem is to
stay as unimportant and as boring as I can. That way if somebody
would accidentally stalk me they would stop very fast.
Its easy, when it receives an email with travel information it assumes you are the one traveling and add it to their servers as your plan. My phone does the same all the time telling me how much it would take for me to get to work and when is the next bus. the funny thing is i don't even have the workplace information filled in, so i have no idea where it asumes i work at. i wonder if i have a secret job i don't know about.
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