From yro.slashdot.org
schwit1 shares a Forbes article by Joe Toscano, a former experience design consultant for Google who in 2017 “decided to step away from my role consulting with Google, due to ethical concerns.”
This summer he got a big surprise when he looked in Chrome’s “addresses” panel at chrome://settings/addressesIt turns out Google has info connecting me to my grandma (on my dad’s side) who’s alive and well but has never had the internet, and my grandpa (on my mom’s side), who recently passed away in March 2019 and also never had the internet. This was disturbing for several reasons, the biggest of which being that neither of them had ever logged onto the internet in their lives. Neither even had the internet in their homes their entire lives! Beyond that, Google knew their exact addresses and their middle initials. I couldn’t even have told you those things about my grandparents…