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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They may even save every Google meet meeting for all we know. They may train their AI on how our faces look in meetings.

Nothing is too creepy for Google.

[–] Benaaasaaas 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would they need that? There is plenty of your face on Google photos.

[–] fishbone 12 points 6 months ago

For you, maybe. Mine is filled with black screen pocket photos, furry porn, and 714 copies of a video of a horrifying mecha furby that's stepping on its own removed face.

Another copy shows up every time I have a nightmare about it, which is pretty odd, now that I think about it.

[–] FMT99 1 points 6 months ago

Why would they need that? Let me introduce you to Big Data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The faces training was all of the filters. Every single time someone took a video or picture and used filters to add cute moe eyes, or make themselves look like a crab, it was being used to make whichever company was doing it have a better bottom line or to accelerate their facial recognition.