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It's not what you see, it's what goes on behind the scenes. Australia, the warrantless colony.
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Now that the rape of several women within the walls of
federal parliament has come out into the ‘public news media’, the authorities
are scrambling for cover and removing all references to Bruce Lehrmann,
together with denying knowledge of any action or reports of rape.
The CEO of the ‘Australian Government’ Mr. Scott John Morrison,
knew of the ‘alleged’ rape and so did many other people, but they chose to
sweep this under the parliament’s carpets.
The Australian authorities have an excellent track record in
protecting rapists and sex offenders within positions of authority, much to the
detriment of the general population.
Watch now as the cover-ups and lies spill into the public
domain.
The worldwide push for corporations to obtain more data from
people via the use of smartphones and more importantly apps is overwhelmingly
oppressive without any shame and in the process deceitful.
Due to the so called ‘news’ ban in Australia for data
collection Goliaths Facebook and Google, other corporations have jumped on the
bandwagon in deceiving users.
One of the least personal data generating ways one can view
the so called ‘news’ publications is via a web browser on a personal computer,
which is attached to a VPN or via an anonymising web browser.
Governments and corporations do not want you to conduct ‘business’
on the internet in this manner, so they lie, deceive, entice or ‘force’ you to
use apps on a smartphone.
Rupert Murdoch’s corporation stated that there are ‘only’ 4
ways to obtain content from it, as shown in screen capture below.
This is false information.
What was (deliberately) not mentioned is the fact the
content can also be viewed within a web browser on a smartphone or personal
computer.
Using an app on your smartphone gives the corporation more
access to your private and personal data, irrespective of what
permissions/switches you may think you have disabled.
The
study for Digital Content Next found much of the data Google collects
from Android-enabled devices happens when the user is not interacting
with Google products. (Illustration/Pamela Saxon)
Google may not know whether you’ve been bad or good but it knows when
you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. If you use an Android device
with the Chrome browser running, the tech giant knows whether you are
traveling by foot or car, where you shop, how often you use your
Starbucks app and when you’ve made a doctor’s appointment.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering Douglas C. Schmidt
studied Google’s data collection practices under a “day in the life”
scenario of an Android phone user. The 55-page study, commissioned by
Digital Content Next, a trade group representing digital publishers,
also detailed data mining over a 24-hour period from an idle Android
phone with Chrome running in the background.
The stationary smartphone running Google’s Android operating system
and Chrome sent data to the company’s servers an average of 14 times an
hour, 24 hours a day.
“These products are able to collect user data through a variety of
techniques that may not be easily graspable by a general user,” Schmidt
concluded in the paper, released in August 2018. “A major part of
Google’s data collection occurs while a user is not directly engaged
with any of its products.”
Mounting privacy concerns
The study comes amid growing scrutiny of how Google collects data,
including lawsuits by consumers who claim the company misled them over
its practices when they used their devices in “incognito” mode and
attempted to turn off their location history settings.
Also escalating is a larger debate about digital privacy and
consideration in Washington D.C. of stricter privacy regulation, a step
the European Union took in May 2018. Facebook, too, is under pressure
for a range of practices, including how it gathers data even when people
aren’t using the social media network – through third-party websites
that have Facebook “like” and “share” buttons.
“The national conversation about personal data collection by various
companies is intensifying, with Americans beginning to understand who’s
invested in knowing their online behaviors,” Schmidt said. “As more
information becomes available about which companies are monitoring our
online behavior and for what purpose, laws and regulations will need to
keep up.”
After the study’s release, Google questioned its credibility.
“This report is commissioned by a professional lobbyist group, and
written by a witness for Oracle in their ongoing copyright litigation
with Google. So, it’s no surprise that it contains wildly misleading
information,” the company said in a statement.
“In May of 2016 I was a witness for the Oracle vs. Google ‘Fair Use
Copyright,’ trial (which had nothing to do with Google’s data collection
practices), but have not been involved with this case since then,”
Schmidt replied. “Moreover, Google has not been able to identify any
specific aspects of my report’s methods or conclusions as erroneous.”
Phoning home – often
Schmidt studied data gathering from all Google platforms and products,
such as Android mobile devices, the Chrome browser, YouTube and Google
Photos, plus the company’s publishing and advertising services, such as
DoubleClick and AdWords.
In the study’s scenario, a researcher created a new Google account as
“Jane” and carried a factory-reset Android mobile phone with a new SIM
card throughout a normal day. While riding the subway to work, she
searched for cold medicine and later scheduled a doctor’s appointment.
From the appointment confirmation email, Google created a calendar
event.
She searched for a new lunch spot, took Uber home from work, used
Google Play and Google Home for music and watched videos on YouTube.
The gray “pings” represent passive data collection during a typical day of an Android phone user. (Illustration/Pamela Saxon)
In all those instances Jane was actively engaged with Google
products. The study distinguishes active data collection and “passive
data collection,” which occurs when the user is not using Google
products directly.
Surprisingly, Schmidt wrote, “Google collected or inferred over
two-thirds of the information through passive means. At the end of the
day, Google identified user interests with remarkable accuracy.”
What qualifies as passive data? With Chrome running and location
enabled, an Android phone is “pinged” throughout the day by other
wireless networks, hot spots, cell towers and Bluetooth beacons. During a
short 15-minute walk around a residential neighborhood, for example,
Jane’s phone sent nine location requests to Google. The requests
collected 100 unique identifiers from public and private Wi-Fi access
points.
“Android phones can also use information from the Bluetooth beacons
registered with Google’s Proximity Beacon feature,” Schmidt said. “These
beacons not only provide user’s geolocation coordinates, but could also
pinpoint exact floor levels in buildings.”
Even when a consumer does not use Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail
or YouTube, the company’s publisher and ad products collect data as she
visits web pages, uses apps and clicks ads. The number of passive data
collection events was twice that of active ones.
Comparing iPhone data
The study also compared data collection from an idle Android phone
running Chrome with an idle iPhone running Apple’s operating system and
the Safari browser. Google did not collect user location information
during the 24-hour time frame. The Android phone communicated with
Google twice as often as the iPhone did.
“I found that an idle Android phone running the Chrome browser sends
back to Google nearly 50 times as many data requests per hour as an idle
iOS phone running Safari,” Schmidt said. “I also found that idle
Android devices communicate with Google nearly 10 times more frequently
as Apple devices communicate with Apple servers. These results highlight
the fact that Android and Chrome platforms are critical vehicles for
Google’s passive data collection.”
Schmidt found Google has the ability to identify specific users by
combining “user-anonymous” advertiser data with its own collected data.
The study could not determine whether the company takes such steps to
link de-anonymized data when a user logs into Gmail or other Google
services. In its statement, Google said it does not connect the data
sources or identify users.
Not using Google’s devices or services does limit data collection,
but the company’s dominant advertising network and tight integration of
the Android platform, Chrome browser and other products makes it nearly
impossible to block Google from collecting some data, the study said.
“Overall, I found that a major part of Google’s data collection
occurs while a user is not directly engaged with any of its products,”
said Schmidt. “The magnitude of Google’s data collection is significant,
especially on Android mobile devices, arguably the most popular
personal accessory now carried 24/7 by more than 2 billion people.”
The study, “Google’s Data Collection,” was made available to the public at Schmidt’s request. Visit Digital Content Next to download the report.
Sources used in the study
Google’s My Activity and Takeout tools, which describe information collected during use of Google’s user-facing products
Data intercepted as it is sent to Google server domains while Google or third-party products are used
Google’s privacy policies, both general and product-specific
Other third-party research that has examined Google’s data collection efforts
