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Google LLC is a megacorporation based in the United States. Among the two largest internet-based services owned by Google are Google Search and YouTube. YouTube alone is accessed by an estimated 122 million people on a daily basis.[1] Google’s proprietary web browser, Chrome, is likewise very popular, being in use on over 65% of all desktop and mobile devices as of August 2024.[2] Despite the near-omnipresent usage of its platforms, Google has adopted a model premised on mass surveillance and invasion of privacy.[3] Google, alongside other large US technology corporations such as Apple, is a known member of the United States government's PRISM surveillance program.[4]
The information which Google is known to collect and maintain includes the entirety of its users’ search history, location, YouTube searches, and messages sent through its email client, Gmail. One of the primary reasons for the harvesting of this information is to construct an advertisement profile individualized in accord with this user data. This personal information is then monetized and sold to advertisement firms.[5][6]
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- ↑ GMI Research Team (December 3, 2024). YouTube Statistics 2024. Official GMI Blog. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ↑ Internet browser market share 2012-2020. Statista. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ↑ Bennett Cyphers (March 19, 2020). Google Says It Doesn’t 'Sell' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ↑ Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill (June 7, 2013). NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others. The Guardian. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ↑ Dylan Curran (December 19, 2018). Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you. The Guardian. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ↑ Bennett Cyphers (March 19, 2020). Google Says It Doesn’t 'Sell' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It.. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved December 18, 2024.