Its scary when you realize How much google knows about you!!!

Google is the company that provides a ton of free services which help us in our day-to-day life. And in return, Google asks for basic information about us so that it can use it for advertising. But do you have any idea of how much Google really knows about you. When you realize it, it may scare you.

                                                  
First and foremost, the amount of information Google keeps about your location is shocking. “Google stores your location (if you have it turned on) every time you turn on your phone, and you can see a timeline from the first day you started using Google on your phone.”.

Google also stores your search history across all your devices on a separate database. Even if a user deletes their search history and phone history, Google will still store everything until a user goes and deletes everything, and this has to be done on all devices.

 In terms of advertisements, Google creates a profile based on a user’s information, including their location, gender, age, hobbies, career, interests, relationship status, possible weight and income as well.

For every Google app or extension you see, the company stores information on how often you use them, where you use them, and who you use them to interact with. It also keeps a track with who you talk to on Facebook, what countries are you speaking with and what time you go to sleep at. One of Google’s most popular app YouTube, stores every possible search history of a user. Google can tell you “whether you're going to be a parent soon, if you're a conservative, if you're a progressive, if you're Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, if you're feeling depressed or suicidal, if you're anorexic.”

With the Calendar app, Google stores a user’s hangout sessions, location history, the music you listen to, the Google books you've purchased, the Google groups you're in, the websites you've created, the phones you've owned, the pages you've shared and how many steps you walk in a day.

With Google offers you an option to download all of the data it stores about you. Curran requested to download it too. He says, “The file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3 million word documents.” This will include bookmarks, emails, contacts, Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you've taken on your phone, the businesses you've bought from and the products you've bought through Google as well.

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