Your file with Google is larger than your files with the intelligence services

We have diverted the attention that has been paid to Facebook in recent weeks because of "data breaches" and privacy violations (because of what happened with Cambridge Analytica) that four major technology companies are collecting a lot of our personal information.

Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are key players in "surveillance capitalism", with new reports suggesting that Google is actually collecting ten times as much as Facebook.

Web developer Dylan Curran says he has downloaded his Google data file, which the company provided at My Account.

This platform was created in 2015 along with the My Activity tool. The report from Google is similar to the report that Facebook provides to its users upon request.

It is not known whether these reports are comprehensive, but Curran estimates that his size was 5.5 gigabytes, almost ten times larger than Facebook provided. He says the amount and type of data in his file suggests that Google is not only constantly tracking our online movements, but may also be monitoring our sites.

Google's Koran report contained incredible quantitative documents about its online activity, dating back more than a decade. But perhaps more importantly, Google was tracking its movements in real life via its smartphone or tablet. This included the random places he frequented, the many foreign countries and cities he visited, the bars and restaurants he went to while in these countries, the amount of time he spent there, and even the route he took to reach.

This is of course not new. It has long been known that Google silently tracks every place you go and creates a map of your physical movements through Location History. You can deactivate it by going to your schedule and setting preferences.

Another user downloaded his file from Google, and discovered that the company was archiving his data even while browsing in incognito mode, a setting that supposedly does not track the user when browsing.

How do you get your files?
Log in to MyAccount from Google, you will be asked to enter your email on Google, and then choose from the menu on the left of the screen Data and personalization service and then choose Download information, and will display all platforms from which you want to download materials Such as maps, browsers, and even e-mail, and it will show that it can take days to download and send this material to you in a link.

Predation of information
Google such as Facebook collects your information for sale to third-party advertisers, including your name, email address, phone number, credit card, certain ways you use Google services, how you interact with any website that uses Google technology, your device, and your search queries. If you don't enter your account and make edits, anything you do online will be tracked while you browse. Google's policy states that:

"If other users already have your email or other personally identifiable information, we may show them your Google profile information in general, such as your name and photo."

However, much of the location data is collected from your use of Google applications such as maps that broadcast your location. If you'd like to stop sharing this information, you should go to your account settings and make edits.

The virtual purpose of this data sharing is to fine-tune your user experience, but who benefits the most? It's debatable. In the same year it released its new business hub, Google also unveiled a new program that shares your email with high-value advertisers.

This system, known as "customer matching," simplifies customer information so that "the advertiser's brand is there with the right message, while your customer receives greater acceptance."

Google's policy categorizes the three main categories of data collection: the things you do, the things you create, the things that determine who you are.

But you have the ability to limit this information. You can turn off location tracking, voice searches, and other features, and you can view and edit your preferences. You can also adjust your public profile, and download Google's stored data to see what they see.

We encourage you to delete all your data from Google, not just from a variety of other online services.