Ask HN: List of other notable Google privacy issues?

13 pointsyuhong5 comments

Do anyone have a list of other notable Google privacy issues not mentioned in my overview and when they started beginning to appear? Overview is at http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-mozilla-overview.html if you don't follow me.

View on HN

Google dns tracking your dns requests which web sites are visited

Google analytics tracking

Google fonts tracking

Google search tracking your search results

Google photos tracking your photo locations and guess machine learning image recognition persons and objects in the pictures using machine learning

Google voice assistant probably tracking search history and habits

Guess this is done so that advertising can be sold.

Mentioned Google Analytics in the overview. The history is quite interesting.

What is fun is how hard was it for me to research some of the parts, and this is one of them.

Thinking about it, I imagine that one instance of Google Analytics would be fine, but tying two instances of it in order to track a user would probably be ridiculous, right?

What about Google Drive? Do they index the contents for advertising purposes?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com