Google is in nearly every part of our digital life, on one side providing valuable services like internet search, email and cloud storage as well as Android, on the other, it collects every bit of data possible about our life, dissecting it and sell it to the companies and politicians who in turn profit from it by manipulating people into believing what they get is what they want, essentially make people psychological succumb to whatever the companies sales.
The trend is accelerating with more data available and more computing power to use with the advancement of AI and Machine learning. It is the time that we should stand up and say enough is enough, and start protecting our privacy in cyber space.
Here are a few thing to stop Google to collect your personal data
- Delete and disable search history
- Disable Ads Personalization. This stops Google to link activities to your google account
- Disable location on your Android phone, only active it when you need it like for driving direction
- Use alternative search engine. Duckduckgo is one that doesn't track you so far
If you want more privacy like I do, further you can with APF Privacy Guard
- Encrypt files before store on Google drive, including photos and videos.
- Instead
of writing into email, write personal information into a file and encrypt it, then share the encrypted file as email attachment
Protect you and your family's privacy before it is too late.
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