An Infographic: Fear Google! The Power of Analytics & User Data

By Sean P. Aune on June 27, 2010 in Google

As Google has taken over more and more online services, and continued to grow in popularity, it means that one company has gathered more and more data about you.

As this infographic from Online Schools shows, Google is collecting data about you from just about everything you do online. Anytime you interact with the Big G, they are gaining more data about you. While there are ways around it, such as turning off your cookies, data shows that only seven in every 1,000 Internet users do so. You may think twice after looking this over.

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Sean P. Aune

Sean P. Aune has been a professional technology blogger since July 2007, but his love of tech dates back to at least 1976 when his parents bought him a small transistor radio he would listen to before bed. He has rabidly followed tech trends ever since, and once he got on the Internet in Sept. 1986, it was all over for him. Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of TechnoBuffalo.com