Can said information include everything gleaned from Google searches and pages with Google analytics? I.e. a full browsing history?
The scary thing as you pointed out with analytics, even if you have no google account google still hold data on you. If you use a private email server google still have a copy of every email you sent to gmail or received and will hand them over as its associated with you.
It's hard to avoid corresponding with other people who use gmail. But it's even harder, when you realise this includes people using their own private email domains that are handled by the gmail service without your knowledge. Many companies do this, even if it's just for the excellent spam filtering.
Location history, installed apps, photos, videos, Gmail, etc. best to assume they have a full export.
Would Google log and hand over all DNS lookups too?
> Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.
> We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.
> In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.
> We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.
When Google DNS says they keep templogs for 24-48h and anonymized permanent logs for analytics, that's what happens.
I doubt I can convince you but the constant drumbeat of everything used for ads is just so annoying (and wrong)
This all adds up to, every way conceivable to use information to target ads, is used that way. I'm not trying to be kind or unkind, cynical or mean. Its just the logic of the situation.
> We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other G Suite services. Google does not collect or use data in G Suite services for advertising purposes.
I mention the other divisions of Google because what their job title is means they aren't "obligated" to collect everything for use by the ad platform, as the parent implies.
I also doubt much of the actual data is available to the ad platform. Do they know you visited console.cloud.google.com? Most likely via Chrome sync history and/or Google Analytics. Do they know whether or not your cloud project is running a single n1 instance or a fleet of c2 instances? I doubt it, especially because there's not much reason to encourage other cloud computing services to advertise to someone that's directly using a competing Google service.
0: https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...