Internet espionage, we know but very worrying... Google spying, only from Google?

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So far by typing my name into Google, here's what you could learn about me:

My name is Charlotte Gillard

I am journalist

I'm 27 years old

But the American giant knows a lot more.

I experienced this by asking for my personal data: 49 files that took several hours to download.

All my internet activity is recorded there. From my browsing history through the videos watched on Youtube and surprise, my trips too.

Google has listed the most frequented places. I even discovered that in 2013, he tracked me using my GPS coordinates.

Here, on November 19, 2013, he recorded all my trips to the city of Bordeaux. He can tell that I took my lunch break at Place de la Victoire for approximately 1 hour. Most importantly, it is able to calculate my travel time from point A to point B.

Another discovery, Google has collected all of my online purchases: books, kitten food...

The American giant Google gets this information from my Gmail mailbox. And on that basis, he was able to create a tailor-made profile.

Very interesting data for advertisers.

So I am a woman between 25 and 35 years old who is interested in the environment, sport, cooking, and arts.

Stranger, I would also have a hidden passion for rap, energy suppliers and furniture.

I take it that he also guessed that I had recently moved.

But there is more astonishing: while peeling these personal data, Vincent Matalon, journalist with FranceInfo.fr, discovered several recordings of private conversations.

- I realized that there were recordings of people next to me from time to time, like this: listened...

This is believed to be a technical bug with the application.

However, Google is in its right from the moment the user accepts its general conditions of use.

Asked, Google reminds that you can delete your data at any time and that it is not sold even if:

"Advertisers can serve advertising to a group of individuals who have demonstrated an interest in cinema on Google, for example, but cannot specifically serve an ad based on an identified personal profile"

Better manage their personal data, a concern for the French.

Since May 2018, the Cnil (National Commission for Computing and Freedoms) has received 11,900 complaints.

19/20 Television France 3 - Report: Charlotte Gillard

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