If you use services such as Gmail and Google Maps, or Meta products such as Facebook, the companies know an alarming amount about you.
This can extend to a second-by-second GPS map of where you go every day, everything you look at online, who your friends are, to things you do in apps and sites that aren’t even owned by Google or Facebook.
Thankfully, it’s fairly easy to take control of what Google and Facebook know – and it’s well worth doing, says privacy expert Rachel Jones, founder of brand protection company SnapDragon Monitoring.
“Today our privacy has been exposed to tech giants like Google and Facebook in ways few people can truly understand,” Jones told Yahoo News UK. “Every click is monitored, every website visit tracked, and every photo is catalogued to learn more about our personal lives, our likes, and our behaviours.
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