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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by sidgames5@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

while, yes, regardless of your privacy settings google still collects a sickening amount of data on you, much of these things (like voice recordings and location history) can be managed and disabled in the settings. if you wish to go further, grapheneos removes A LOT of tracking potential.

these should be opt in features, but one can opt out of much of them.

[–] delirious_owl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How is it not zero on Graphene??

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

well if you have play services installed then google is gonna get some data on you.

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

So does CalyxOS