See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services

Re:See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched ... by 0xmohit on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @10:59AM (#12043492)

Now hasn't started reading email now. Somebody gleefully mentioned to me several months back that Now reminds her of bills (due dates and amounts) automatically. Essentially by reading emails from gmail. I was also told that by evening it'd start telling by itself the approximate time it would take to reach home.

For some such inputs are rich, for others scary.

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Re:See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched ... by honkhonkpants on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @01:05PM (#12044422)

A computer program does not "read" your email in a meaningfully "scary" way.

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Re:See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched ... by 0xmohit on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @01:23PM (#12044547)

The information thus gathered can certainly be utilized in ways that may be "scary".

Most don't care anyways.

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Re:See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched ... by lostlogin on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @02:31PM (#12044950)

Any thoughts on what would have happened if Snowdens bosses could see his bills? His airline tickets? What the machine does with the bills is the scary bit.

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Re:See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched ... by taneq on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:45AM (#12048034)

For a third group, such inputs are rich if provided by an algorithm running locally, on your own personal data, whilst preserving your privacy.

They're scary when they're the carrot used to persuade you to allow a full invasion of your personal life by an outside entity, which as a matter of course requires permission to store, search, aggregate, and use commercially all of the data that it finds.

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