Monday, 4 August 2014

Google is watching you. Be Afraid.

Is your privacy safe on the internet? Sadly, the answer is a big ‘No’.  If you allow Google, it can track whole of your online presence, starting from your most visited website to your casual search. Google uses your history for keyword suggestions to your search, adwords and many other Google products.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t know the fact that, other than browser history, there is a history called Google Account History. If you made this account history enable Google stores all of your browsing behavior. And the Default mode for this account history may be ‘Enabled’. Go to this link: https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory login and see what Your History is. Here is what I got.



Google mostly uses these details for giving you a better internet experience and for displaying ads relevant to you. And now, it is know that those histories are efficiently utilized for an app called ‘Google Now’, which can give you notifications on your day to day life events. This history tracking phenomena works well, until it turns against you and causes trouble. For say, someone hacked into your account and viewed all your history, unimaginable right?

Good or bad, for those who think it’s weird to allow someone to enter your privacy, you may disable your search history. For those who think it’s okay, it’s Okay. For all of you fellow surfers, this post sends a message to you. “Google is watching you. Be Afraid. Be very afraid”.
Peace out..!!

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