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Are you like me, and getting really sick and tired of being spied on?

Google illegally spying on people on the internet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/03/college_students_sue_google/

If you feel uncomfortable call the police maybe this solution good

that is not right GOOGLE is the main browsing server that give you all information about any topic.
and when we are confused that which is the good site to search we search in google and it give you all in formation
but yes in some aspects it is like that but not 100% true.

It is highly more likely they will just find more subtle ways of collecting the info. Or try to entice them into using it out of school where it can be monitored. If you will spy on college students , you will spy on anyone.
P.S. I'm sorry, but you were using GMAIL for goodness' sake. What did you expect?

I saw a lot of news about this. I admit google is king on the internet. and anything can be done .As we currently use google search engine. then google search activity also must record that we do.

It is 100% true. Google is in everything. Get yourself a script blocker plug-in for your browser and tell me how many sites you see connect to Google. Here is a hint - nearly all of them. That means almost every web page you connect to, Google knows about it, even if you didn't use a search engine to get there. Every site with a Google ad, every site with a Google app, every site with Google syndication, every site with a Google captcha, and more. Don't forget they own Youtube, Android OS, Meebo, and for when they get tired of paying around in cyberspace they also own Boston Dynamics when they want to build the terminators for the Skynet they have built. They use your cell phone to track your every move and to record your every word spoken in its presence, and that is just what is public. So yes, it is that bad and more.

PERFECTLY agreed.. google is the ruler of the internet. so of course it will keep our personal information.. if someone dont want to be spied , dont use internet then..

Tell me something new,

Google overlords are the best!

What did we expect to happen when a high segment of the tech industry is autistic and lacking empathy.

well logically google can do that but I don't know if I care or not  ::)
also I don't know if maidsafe coin project about securing the internet may help in these cases , it's like a decentralized network

Not caring is why these companies nibble around the edges of personal information till they get push back. They take a step back and move forward again once the heat cools down.
We have police cameras now on every corner of our downtown and that was passed with little issue a month ago. Flashback 10 years ago and people where screaming bloody murder about losing personal privacy! So what changed? End of the day they keep coming at the public till they wear them down or they change the wording. Best option if to take a terror attack or virus/hack to push the agenda home.

If people continue to not care it will mean we will be in a complete police state with no privacy. The people pushing it do not even realize that is the end game because they usually are stuck in the issue at hand and unable to step back and see the ramifications down the road.

they want spy all and every one...take a look of "terms and conditions" movie... really amazing!

We lost all privacy since like forever, its not just google.

Its also every telecommunications provider handing over phone conversations records, associated with the NSA as their conisder national security..

Well i think this is not new...Phone conversation was also spied not just on movies but its on reality too.

it all depends on the policy of the company google. but I am sure the company classmates and amounted google will not do this. they are strong and big as it has the trust of its users. Google will never betray it. if this is true, Google will lose popularity and then drowned by itself.

Actually you are spied by anyone that can spy on you.
If you use Windows (especially Win10) it's Microsoft. If you browse the internet, then it's at least Google, but actually there are 100s of sites, some of them older than Google (Yahoo is one of them and that's one of the reasons it worth that much), but all the sites handling banners do spy on you. Then there's the antivirus/security solution you use. Then there's your phone. Then the TV tells forward what channel you prefer (some smart TVs were caught sending away even the discussions from your home "to improve voice commands" lol).

So yeah, it's not only Google. They are only more visible.

You don't have to use Google you know.

You can use Mozilla Firefox for a browser instead of Chrome.

You can use yahoo mail or microsoft mail instead of Gmail.

You can use DuckDuckGo as a search engine instead of the Google search engine. For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo doesn't track you. Here's the link:

https://duckduckgo.com/

Google has its scripts on about 80% of every page on the internet. Even if you use a script blocker, a lot of sites like Cloudflare + Captcha REQUIRE you allow Google to even access the site.

Even so - the more you block them (and don't use their services) the more difficulty they have tracking you. Do you know why they have such a dominant position? Because people say, oh well they are everywhere so no point using any other search engines.  :)

These other search engines basically redirect to Google for answers and queries and search tabs. I don't really see any point in it. But yea, thanks for the note.

DuckDuckGo doesn't redirect to Google. It really is a separate stand alone search engine with it's own search engineers. But I guess people don't want to try it out because if the mighty Google fell, who would they have to moan about?  :)

I DO block them, which is more than 98% of the people on the internet bother to do. However if you don't take this step, using other search engines IS completely pointless, because they already occupy or own the vast majority of websites on the internet that people use most.

I don't think that all this steps helps much.
It seems everybody spying on people this days :)
USA Government, Russia, CIA, FBI, Google etc.
Do you really think that Microsoft don't spy us?
Or that government agencies can't spy us if we use Firefox or Opera?
It's useless, we can't protect our privacy anymore.
''big brother'' is everywhere. Literally.

You can call it spying but people are leaving that data behind by there own. They just easy grab it and use it for personal advertisement and better search results. Just try to leave not that much information about your self on the internet.

This is true, the harder you can make it for them the better. However they are making it harder every day for people to maintain their privacy.

If these app games are any example of how willing people forgo their privacy,think the majority have no issue living in a world where ads are specifically made for them based on their searches. When you have conversations with people that are ok with little privacy you really can not sway them because they think they can do nothing wrong in the eyes of the law due to conforming to every step. Tend to think you can not reach them till its to late.

Yes, and so does facebook. You have to block their cookies individually.
Block all cookies from:
google.com
google.de
google.es
google.fr
google.it
...
Add top domain level from every country where you travel.
Block also
googleadservices.com
facebook.com
twitter.com
And you should be quite safe. You may also use Tor.

Nothing can be done about that. Facebook, Whatsapp and even your phone manufacturer could be spying on you.

TOR wont protect you from tracking, it will only anonymize your IP.

when someone uses any service for Google, he will agree first on their privacy agreement. so how can those students sue them, if they do not like google for using their data for advertising proposes, then they can use other products

Try blocking google features on a andriod and suddenly all kinds of aspects are not working properly. You can not use one product without the others working,at least this is my experience with them.

I've seen ex machina movie. the main character is spied by his history on google. so his boss can predict what he loves.

I think it's possible for google to spy on us.
I feel the same like you. I don't like being spied on.

For the ones (still) using Chrome, just install the plugin called Ghostery.
You'll be surprised of how many sites try to spy on you.

Most of the big companies (not all) spy on people that use their services, so does the google too, they even spy at our emails if we are using gmail or other google services.

Is there a article about them spying on emails as well? Would not doubt it but would like proof as well.

Well yes there are many articles that prove that google does spy on our gmail account, for example with a quick search in google i found this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-scans-all-emails-new-google-terms-clarify

E-mail is about the internet equivalent of shouting over your fence at your neighbor, all someone has to be doing is standing around to hear it. Unless you use encryption you can pretty much count on everyone who wants a copy of your e-mails having one.

yeah, I am, and I live in brazil, and here the internet companies want to limit our internet, at home, at the smallest plan is 10gb large, the largest is 150gb, and at home, my family and I use at home 2tb/month, what do you think 'bout that?

Starting to think I am to behind the 8ball to be able to figure out how to protect myself properly. Guess I just need to learn how its done to understand the issue. For some reason I need to always be able to see the full scope before it sinks in.

PAPER: GOOGLE sketchy quest to control knowledge… FTC ‘taking second look’
http://investmentwatchblog.com/paper-google-sketchy-quest-to-control-knowledge-ftc-taking-second-look/

These bastards scare me,think the world powers are going to break off under these big companies and not actual Countries in the future. Autism is at a way higher percentage in the tech community and they tend to be very black and white in thinking,so the idea that they are going to be pushing what is right for us is a very dark aspect for us all.

If it is not google, then it would be microsoft or apple. In reality we don't have much to do against those companies. if you use vpn, tor everytime you open your pc and never shared your private information public, you may have a chance stay anonymous. You can't even sign up for a F***n gmail without giving your  cellphone number. Then why teh fck everyone is using their crap suure i dunno.

Everything that is closed source can be said to be spied( I dont trust my phone) .Google has srrounded us from search to phone. We are very much dependent on them. We should now choose to open source.

Google Pulls Plug on Predatory Payday Loan Ads, Huzzah ...

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-bans-payday-loan-ads/

So its something most of us do not mind, but is this not how most censoring dictatorships start!
If I search for somthing it should turn up in a search.

google has always been spying us every since. take a look at the ads displayed on the websites you visit and you'll its almost targeted to you. search something like "car models" and you'd be prompt with ads about cars. how do they know  which ads to display? its because they've spy us thru the browser cookies.

Ghostery
AdBlock
Noscript
Click&Clean
Change IP

You're good  :)

That helps, but things like browser fingerprinting and other hidden tracking mechanisms for example like Verizon (http://www.clarkhoward.com/how-opt-out-verizons-super-cookie-tracking) uses still allows them to track you. To be sure you are anonymous on the internet now days you pretty much need to buy a computer with cash from a retailer that doesn't have cameras, use it once for one single purpose use, connect to a public open wifi connection (again without being on camera) using a double VPN (in and out) paid for with Bitcoin and that does not keep records, use a proxy, and then never use it again. True anonymity is not easy (or cheap).

Isn't anonymazing your IP is the same as protecting you from tracking? I mean because they wouldn't know whom they are tracking?

Also I have a questing about what's wrong with using gmail?

Unless the one who is anonymizing the IP also send all the needed info to google as well.

It depends on what type of tracking you mean. The short answer is no, it doesn't. Your browser fingerprint can be tracked via things like the addons and extensions you use, the fonts installed on your computer, and other factors which make a fairly unique marker to track you with. Each computer processor also has a unique identification number embedded in the hardware which can be used to track your online activities. As far as what is wrong with using Gmail, it is a Google product. Using any Google product or service pretty much guarantees you have no privacy or anonymity because they go to great lengths to track you and collect personal information.

Like u r doing something illigal and wish to hide it. Well, i don't care.

Not only Google but most of the social networking sites do the same. Govt is totally blind

You do not care because you are not grasping the issue at hand or are to far down the road of thought policing.
This issue will slowly sway public action and dictate what people know about any one topic.

I am really worried about how a potentially new blockchain/new currency could be used and implemented to control us all. Unfortunately that is a very scary downside.

Who isn't illegally spying on people on the internet?

Since you have nothing to hide, you won't mind if we show your mother your pornography habits right?

Not only google are illegal spying people on the internet. Some of the softwares that we are using they are one of those.
Before accepting the terms and license agreement kindly be sure and read it for a while because it be written there that you are agree to use your hardwares especially your webcams without any notification by them.

This is bad.
In my country for example. they listen to everything we say and write the phone

If you talk to someone on the phone and pronounces the word "bomb" "War" "manifestation" in a few minutes the police are at your house to ask you.

People are limited, they can not express their thoughts because they fear being repressed

Really we stand up now for the next generation,its to late for any current generation as they have been fed a narrative that you give up certain aspects of freedom for the greater good. If the next generation keeps with the agenda,it will not be long till our fridges release on a timer and box of food slides out for our portions with a side cup of medications.
The whole attack on what we do in our lives is to push us a better product but that feels like the mask issue and the real issue is to get us more reliant on their product to control us more and more.
Damn T.V listening to me talking at it about what crap it has on selection,I am starting to see why Elvis kept shooting them. Ahead of his time!

Why is it so important that someone is able to spy? I guess people overestimate themselves thinking that someone is really interested in wasting time exploring smb's life

Easy to spy on people these days by setting up guidelines in what data is important to them. People are also engrained to click agree with terms of service without reading, so very easy to achieve.

Google rules the internet, nothing is illegal for google. Like it or not, Google will spy you wherever you are, wheter you are shiiting or surfing doesnt matter. All you can do is to live an internet free life, which I dont think is poossible for anyone...

Wait...what?? Googles motto is dont be evil...

I want to believe amen.

This is a long-known fact, and so it will always be a world giant in the Internet, and even if people do not want this, they will continue to

In fact, everyone spying us, not just Google.
Our browsers collect info about our searching on the Internet, sites we visit also collect info about us, our Internet providers, company websites we visit etc.
Even offline companies do this, so I don't see any reason for surprise here, it's common knowledge and practice.
Ask Snowden how much our governments spying us and US government is on the top of it.
If we want to avoid spying only solution will be to come back in the stone age or live in the forest :)

 

It's to do with the safe-browse feature on most browsers. It is owned by Google and basically everytime your browser tries to look up an url, it checks it against a database of urls, and if it is something it doesn't recognise, it crawls it to check.

Do you understand how blackmail works? You don't need to be doing anything illegal. With massive all encompassing spying, anyone who resists the powers that be can be crushed using sensitive private information. Stop watching so many movies and take a look around every once and a while buddy.

How does https://duckduckgo.com/ "redirect to Google for answers and queries and search tabs"?

To make internet a safer place ? I could literally jot down 100 reasons why they're are "able" to spy but I will leave the rest of the research to yourself.
Ever heard about data analysis or big data ? Have you ever searched a product on internet and have the same product for sale on your facebook page ? That is more of spying,isn't it ?
It's a bless and a curse.

I know google are illegally spying to us not only in that link. .if you remember one of the google member said that we know where you from and we know what you are doing..or something like that.. so it means they are spying us.. so we heard someone hack like trading sites maybe google is one of the suspect because trading sites have a high secured..

... https://youtu.be/dBtmzY5gcO8?t=18m28s

yes its true Google knows everything which you search on internet and google should change their spying policy because it is the main browsing server,and every one use it google should change this policy

Microsoft to crack down on content promoting extremist acts
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-terrorism-idUSKCN0YC00X


Thought this goes hand in hand with the issue of spying even if it is for a greater good.
It does not explain at all how they data mine information to achieve this goal besides stating hopefully users will report such issues. Think it will go a lot farther than that and most likely change little in the fight against these radical users but a step closer to more invasive procedures into our browsing and activities.

Your problem is you have spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren’t.
just watch this film 
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BoQBVgNtdqE/movieposter.jpg
Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013)

I agree on this , it is the scope of google ,Google is the browser of whatever we search on so it also the example of browsing history its records from time to time it is not on spying ,also when we download of visit a site that is a malicious or any virus something like that they're warn us .

Ithink if you want some privacy just do browse in incognito mode .it doesnt record any cached or browse history.

It uses the Google API to do a search indirectly and forward search results while stripping your personal identifying information. It does not ensure you privacy, but it is a worthwhile step to increase your privacy that is very easy.

Welcome to the modern world my friend  :) This is nothing new, it's been happening for centuries. For as long as there'll be a tiny group of people in control of the whole world, the masses will be herded like cattle. The only way you can avoid this is by making your own way, separate from the world's.

Yes, maybe in some ways like if you type in your name in google then all the sites that you are member of or the topics that you commented and all your accounts will be reflected.  But who cares, I mean, not all the information on that particular data will be revealed only those that are publicly posted.There are nothing to be afraid of if you are not belongs to a syndicate, a very rich person, a superstar, or a celebrity.   ;)

Lol, and what? you're scared and shocked?
What an idiot... They own the internet, they do whatever they want...
Companies like apple are powerful enough to say fuck to governments, but companies like Google can say fuck to the people...

Do you know that Facebook is spying on you too if you have Facebook app installed in your Android device or iOS device they can record your voices . No need to login to an account just installed app does it all . So be aware .

Wow I didn't know of this. Do you have any actual proof of this? It would be cool to have exploited this.

Having an evidence of this is great because if this is just a rumor I might get fucked up if I tell my friends.

Well it was the head line on news channels for over 2-3 days .


I guess you guys don't watch news ?

reference link : http://thefreethoughtproject.com/facebook-silently-listening-stop/

If the APP is installed they can hear you they can listen to your private conversations , That is why i use Facebook on my laptop or computer.

We can't stop google from doing that. We always use their services and because of that, they can now what we are doing or watching. Well what we can do to prevent that is nothing.

Is brave based on Firefox does the same as the others browsers?