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A joint study by Microsoft and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Caregie Mellon (United States) found that 93% of porn websites offer user data to third parties and almost 45% of them suggest content related to sexual orientation of each user

The Internet collects, stores and stores many more personal data that the user is aware of, such as the sites they visit, their shopping habits or if they have a partner, as the analysis of IMF Business School, which highlights that only Google can store up to 5GB of Personal data of each user .

The research carried out by IMF Business School highlights that whatever the user publishes on the Internet is registered at the disposal of third parties , making the Internet know us better than our own friends or family.

But this data collection is done with the express permission of the users. According to the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) nine out of ten Internet users accept the terms and conditions of the Internet without having read them , and 69% are not worried.

In just one minute, 500,000 tweets, 66,000 photos are posted on Instagram and 3.5 million searches are conducted on Google worldwide. In fact, security consultant Dylan Curran has calculated that Google can store up to 5 GB of personal data for each user, that is, three million Word documents, as collected by IMF Business School.

There are several ways in which the Internet collects personal information without the user noticing. The first is the location and where the person moves because the location is permanently activated on some devices. Thus, Google knows the sites that the user has visited , how long it took to arrive, what time it arrived, what time it went and how it went to these sites.

Internet has the ability to know if the user has a relationship. If the user starts calling another person or talking on WhatsApp with her, a few days later Facebook or Instagram will suggest if they know her, and this is due to the 'app' as indicated in her terms and conditions, she can transfer data between Facebook and Instagram, you can even access the user's contact list even if the user does not have WhatsApp.

Everything that the user searches on the Internet is registered, even if you are using the browser's incognito mode; It is very difficult to clear the search history completely .

It also collects information about the things that the user wants to buy, and it is because Google maximizes the ads in each user's accounts, so it is very common that banners and web ads appear that perfectly reflect the tastes and interests of the user. Username. In this case, Google prepares the profile of interests of each user for advertisers, it can be consulted in the Ads Settings section .

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