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Der gläserne Bürger ist schon längst Realität:

«A new report published by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) demonstrates the dangers of Google. Specifically, it illustrates how Google wields the sword of real-time bidding (RTB) with devastating effects.

First off, what is RTB? According to Google’s website, it involves the buying and selling of “digital advertising inventory.”

Now, ask yourself, what is meant by the term “inventory”? A comprehensive list. To be clear, this list, as the ICCL report warns, outlines in great detail the markings left by our digital footprints.

This “$117+ billion industry,” as the authors note, “operates behind the scenes on websites and apps.” It tracks everything—absolutely everything you do—including what you look at, “no matter how private or sensitive.”
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Every single day, 365 days a year, Google broadcasts all of this data to almost 5,000 different companies worldwide. This enables the recipients, all 5,000 of them, to extensively profile you.

Have you ever wondered why you get targeted with very specific, very personal ads?

Well, now you know. In the words of the ICCL researchers, “RTB is the biggest data breach ever recorded.” Besides tracking and sharing what you view online, Google’s RTB shares your real-world location many times a day. How many? “178 Trillion times every year in the U.S. & Europe.”
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Across the United States, internet users’ online behavior and locations are tracked, cataloged, and shared more than 100 trillion times a year.

In Europe, things aren’t much better; RTB exposes people’s data 376 times every 24 hours. Online behavior and locations are tracked 71 trillion times.

For some reason, Google really seems to have it in for the Germans. According to the report, “Google sends 19.6 million broadcasts about German Internet users’ online behaviour every minute that they are online.”

Whether you happen to live in Berlin or Boston, Munich or Miami, the following point should scare you: “private data is sent to firms across the globe, including to Russia and China, without any means of controlling what is then done with the data.”»

https://www.theepochtimes.com/is-google-selling-your-private-data-to-china_4481228.html