Things Google knows about you
Ever wondered what Google actually knows about you?
First
- Everything you search for using Google
- Every web page you visit that has Google Adsense ads on it
- Which country you're in
- Every Blogger page you visit, and the referring page
If you have an Adsense account
- Your full name, address and bank account details
- The IP address of everyone who visits your pages with Adsense ads on them
- The number of visitors to each of your pages with Adsense ads on them
If you use a GMail account
- Who you send emails to
- Who sends emails to you
- The contents of those emails
- The contents of all emails received from any mailing lists of which you are a member, even if they are private mailing lists.
Even if you don't use a GMail account
- The contents of any emails you send to anyone who does use a GMail account
- The contents of any emails you send to any mailing lists of which any one member uses a GMail account
If you're a member of Orkut
- Your online social network, interests and groups
Pretty scary, huh?
I actually use all of the above Google services :P
Oh well, I don't care, I've got nothing to hide.
[Via: HubLog]
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Anyway, I've been trying to get a GMail account for a while, but I can't figure out how to sign up. Are they letting people sign up?
Privacy?
I remember hearing about this concept in the past. Not sure what it means though now :P
As for GMail, it's still not open publically, it's still invite-only for the time being.
Posted by: MMM at August 27, 2004 02:11 PMWell, I Believe that google could control the world :) with the information the have!
IT's just a matter of time
Posted by: Ammar Ibrahim at August 29, 2004 07:58 AMI have gmail and when I used first time that amazing google earth there was text above my house saying MY HOUSE. I never added my personal adress anywhere, but gmail. That´s some scary s...
Posted by: Randy at October 12, 2005 11:53 PM
