Tomorrow, Tuesday the Judicial Committee of the U.S. Senate will hold hearings on the protection of the rights of consumers and protection of personal information of citizens in their use of various hardware and software services. It is reported that the hearings will perform and answer questions from senators and lawyers Google and Intel.
In society there is a growing fear that such organizations as Google, Intel, Facebook, and other manufacturers of gadgets and programs that receive too much information about users, including private. Google, for example, never denied that collects data about users and proud by collecting and analyzing this data and offers people tailored to their needs, and provides advertisers the opportunity to more targeted and effective advertising.
The senators are going tomorrow to find out how far the tech giants in this collection of information and how legitimate it is.
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Axios has compiled the information that is known about you by Google.
What Google collects
- The queries that you are looking for.
- The videos you watch.
- Voice and audio information using audio features.
- The purchasing activity.
- The people with whom you communicate or share content.
- Activity on third-party sites and apps that use Google services.
- Ads and content that you are viewing on Google sites, and interaction with this content.
- Browsing history, Chrome synced with your Google account .
- The location data that Google can collect directly using GPS data or retrieved from other sensors and data, including IP address, nearby Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth beacons.
Google does not collect
- Data Google Docs from business customers that use the paid enterprise version.
- Internet traffic from my home Wi-Fi routers.
- Previously, the company used the content of emails in Gmail to select ads for display, but no longer does this, stating that other data is more efficient.
The data privacy law until 2020
The senators want to pass a Federal data privacy law until 2020 to restore order in this sphere. For example, such a law valid in Europe, which makes US a convenient region for technogiant if they want to know too much. But the efforts of the legislators will be resisted technology companies that have their own vision of how it should all be spelled out in the law.
The first attempt of exchange of views on the future of the law took place last week in San Francisco at the annual RSA conference, which was attended by 40 thousand of experts in security and privacy. The conference proved that opinions that are valid are many and different. However, Republican Senator from Mississippi Roger Wicker assured the conference that the law will be prepared for discussion in the Senate before the end of 2019.
