They know what you did last year and they recorded it. Here’s how to delete.

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Missouri Education Watchdog by Cheri Kiesecker

Depending on your settings, Google has your voice recorded, your searches recorded, HAS YOUR LOCATION, your whereabouts over the past year recorded and mapped.

Yes, this is real.

Follow the simple instructions below to see what is recorded on your phone- or children’s phones and learn how to delete the recordings. Then, CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS.

It is worth your time to do this. Get this. I had an old android phone. When I had the old phone, we took a trip. I got a new phone and a new computer after this trip (my old computer went black screen and died.) So, two new devices, after this trip.

Logging onto my new phone today, to see if Google really does record and store your voice and map your travels… Sure enough, Google had my location, every place I have gone was marked on the map. Remember, my new phone, my new computer were not even purchased when I went on this trip last year. Google can collect this audio and location data from your phone and store it in their cloud. You can clear cookies (which I do), you can get a new device and your data history is still stored, talking to you, and showing you what you searched for, your geo location, where you have been in the world[…]

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This week in data: spying, lying and being human.

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"Human", being human, breach, Colorado, Colorado Hb1423, Congress, data, data collection, data privacy, data tracking, Dataminr, Ethics, Facebook, FTC, Garnett, Global Education Futures Initiative, Google, Lundeen, Microsoft, morals, Privacy, privacy bills, surveillance, Twitter

Missouri Education Watchdog by Cheri Kiesecker

NO this isn’t everything that happened in data, not even close. When you start paying attention, you see that data breaches are happening daily , internet outages, cables cut, privacy bills passing, privacy bills getting killed or weakened by the very industry taking the data, internet as a human right, tremendous expansion of online education and blended learning, lawsuits, who’s spying on who…it’s everywhere and it’s enough to make your head spin. So, today, I write on just a few of the data stories of this week. You will want to read- They are big stories. Click on the links to read the full stories. Be sure to read the last one from Microsoft on being human.

 

Twitter -Dataminr have been providing U.S. intelligence agencies with data

[T]he chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twitter requested one of its key B2B partners, Dataminr — a service that offers advanced social media analytics and early detection of major events like terrorist attacks or natural disasters — stop providing U.S. intelligence agencies with their tools and content.

But Dataminr isn’t ending its relationship with the government altogether: Dataminir still counts In-Q-Tel, the non-profit investment arm of the CIA, as an investor. Dataminr has taken investment from Twitter, too, highlighting some of the conflicts that remain as tech companies fight for more transparency and autonomy from government control. Interestingly, the agencies who are at the center of today’s news were using Dataminr in an unpaid pilot, TechCrunch understands. That pilot, which was coming to an end, could not be continued as a paid deal because of pre-existing Twitter policies that forbid selling data for use in government surveillance. The news of Dataminr cutting off intelligence groups was first reported by the WSJ, and we have confirmed the details directly with sources.

What exactly is Dataminr? The company uses Twitter firehose data — the unfiltered, full stream of Tweets from Twitter’s 300m+ users — along with other primary sources,

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