Google’s User Data Empire (flag)
www.slightlyshadyseo.com — Unique Identifier - Chrome generates a unique id whether or not you agree to send your data to Google. If you agree to send it, this ID gets trasmitted. So what does that do? It makes it so they can identify you regardless of where your computer is, and regardless of cookies. It’s truly the ...
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Google Knows Where I Am and Everything Else I Do
CenterNetworks — ... alerted me that my cell phone was ready for an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 which apparently also set the GPS receiver to "on". This morning I went out for a walk, loaded Google Maps, clicked "use GPS" and started walking. This was my first time with my own GPS unit and damn is it precise. On my walk home I realized Google now knows where I've been walking. While I didn't login to use the Google Maps service, they could easily get that information. XMCP wrote a post this weekend which looks at how Google tracks each of us as we use the net. Last ...

The End Of Online Anonymity
ReadWriteWeb — ... ." (If you want to jump even deeper down that rabbit hole, take a closer look at Google's User Data Empire).  ...

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