Shocking Facts about User Data Privacy on Google
Google has it all about you in its database. According to CNBC reports, all of your purchases are managed by Google. The concept behind is they pull data from the email receipts through your Gmail account. In addition, Google mines a few more information. For more exposure, it keeps a record of all your searches that you put in the search and store the data based on the email account. Consequently, it continues showing up the related products or facts or attributes as you proceed with using the internet.
The scenario is more specific for purchases you make— the purchases list includes everything you've bought so far with the receipt from the Gmail, whether you got it from Google or not. It's also difficult to clean this list without deleting the receipt.
For clarification, a page called “Purchases” shows an accurate list of many things you bought for you. This is the private called “private destination” that is only seen by you. However, the timeline starts back in 2012. It shows a list of purchases you do for the online services or apps such as Amazon, not necessarily directly through Google.
The reason being the digital receipts goes to the Gmail account; Google has a list of information about the buying habits.
On a more granular level, every time you connect with the Google products, you're connecting to one of its data centers located around the world.
According to the report, let’s suppose you have a confirmation for a prescription you picked up at a pharmacy that went into your Gmail account, Google logs it. On the part of the user, what we can do is delete the transaction history from page one by one, and it can be a daunting task.
However, Google assures that the data finds no use in any breaching activities, and does this in order to allow its Google Assistant to reorder or track packages.
With all the features added — Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Search, Google has already become an indispensable part of our life. The darker perspective of this terrific advancement to ease life comes at the cost of compromising with data privacy.
Here's some of the functional Know About of the “Real Google”:
- Google has got 14 datacenters. Each time you connect with Google, you actually content with of the data centers.
- Data centers are powered by Google and run 24 hours.
- The data centers are just like Google Office with racks and racks of servers at the backend with enough computer storage.
- The Datacenters handle everything from regulation of everyday searches and hosting you-tube videos.
A few of the Know about of the “Technical Google”:
- The optic fibers run at the rate that is 200,000 times faster than usual internet speed.
- Behind the Servers are several fans cooling down for better functioning.
- To make sure, customers have quick access, Google stores the same data in two servers.
- Google stores the set of most important data in the digital tapes called “Tape Library”.
- There is a backup tape for data storage.
These facts hint about the layered storage of the data across the platform.
On the other side of the coin, you can choose to prevent Google from accessing and using this information for its products and services. But then, doing as such would refrain you from using the functionalities, for instance, you won't be able to ask the Google Assistant questions about when your packages will be delivered.
