Google Chrome Is Spying On you

Started by Solar, April 10, 2018, 08:20:11 AM

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Solar

But it gets worse.

Google users are sharing their shock at discovering Chrome's built-in anti-virus Chrome Cleanup Tool is scanning private files on their computers. The browser component, added in 2014 to scan and remove malicious or system resource heavy software, is behind the outcry

The discovery was made by Kelly Shortridge, a cybersecurity expert at New York based startup SecurityScorecard.

Ms Shortridge noticed that the tool was scanning files in a documents folder on her Windows PC and was concerned that it may be collecting data.

She shared her findings on Twitter, where she said: 'I was wondering why my Canarytoken (a file folder) was triggering and discovered the culprit was Chrome.

'Turns out Google Chrome quietly began performing AV scans on Windows devices last fall.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5577055/Chromes-built-anti-virus-tool-scanning-private-files-computer.html
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Quote from: Solar on April 10, 2018, 08:20:11 AM
But it gets worse.

Google users are sharing their shock at discovering Chrome's built-in anti-virus Chrome Cleanup Tool is scanning private files on their computers. The browser component, added in 2014 to scan and remove malicious or system resource heavy software, is behind the outcry

The discovery was made by Kelly Shortridge, a cybersecurity expert at New York based startup SecurityScorecard.

Ms Shortridge noticed that the tool was scanning files in a documents folder on her Windows PC and was concerned that it may be collecting data.

She shared her findings on Twitter, where she said: 'I was wondering why my Canarytoken (a file folder) was triggering and discovered the culprit was Chrome.

'Turns out Google Chrome quietly began performing AV scans on Windows devices last fall.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5577055/Chromes-built-anti-virus-tool-scanning-private-files-computer.html
Keep reading where files, photos, videos are getting uploaded off people's phones, without their involvement, as well.

Is this just another whole phase in the swamp fight ?  Has somebody been making complete and total use of Google, FB, Twitter, Youtube, etc. to just run people's lives and everything else  ?

Trump will have to spend billions just to be able to staff the investigations, AFTER he gets the Clinton-Obama-FBI cases going.

Solar

Quote from: AndyJackson on April 10, 2018, 11:10:56 AM
Keep reading where files, photos, videos are getting uploaded off people's phones, without their involvement, as well.

Is this just another whole phase in the swamp fight ?  Has somebody been making complete and total use of Google, FB, Twitter, Youtube, etc. to just run people's lives and everything else  ?

Trump will have to spend billions just to be able to staff the investigations, AFTER he gets the Clinton-Obama-FBI cases going.
I was shocked, yes shocked to find out Google could snoop private files beyond their browser.
I expect it from the Govt/NSA, but I didn't expect Goog to take the risk, unless they did it on behalf of the Fed.
That in itself is outright theft.
Sad thing is, my Chrome was screwing up, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it just two days ago. I guess I'm going to have to get used to using Brave.
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Quote from: Solar on April 10, 2018, 11:24:21 AM
I was shocked, yes shocked to find out Google could snoop private files beyond their browser.
I expect it from the Govt/NSA, but I didn't expect Goog to take the risk, unless they did it on behalf of the Fed.
That in itself is outright theft.
Sad thing is, my Chrome was screwing up, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it just two days ago. I guess I'm going to have to get used to using Brave.

I like BING.

Liberal, but not GOOGLE-EVIL.

Until I read otherwise.

T Hunt

Quote from: Solar on April 10, 2018, 11:24:21 AM
I was shocked, yes shocked to find out Google could snoop private files beyond their browser.
I expect it from the Govt/NSA, but I didn't expect Goog to take the risk, unless they did it on behalf of the Fed.
That in itself is outright theft.
Sad thing is, my Chrome was screwing up, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it just two days ago. I guess I'm going to have to get used to using Brave.

I have always used Mozilla firefox
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Quote from: Solar on April 10, 2018, 07:40:32 PM
I dumped Mozilla for a good reason.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/04/03/mozilla-ceo-steps-down-amid-protest-over-gay-marriage-views.html

I would support him solely based on the bullying Conservative CEOs get for supporting Conservative issues (regardless of the issue or the product/service).
With all these lawyers with cameras on the street i'm shocked we have so much crime in the world.

There is constitutional law and there is law and order. This challenge to law and order is always the start to loosing our constitutional rights.

Frauditors are a waste of life.

Solar

Quote from: Sick Of Silence on April 10, 2018, 08:54:47 PM
I would support him solely based on the bullying Conservative CEOs get for supporting Conservative issues (regardless of the issue or the product/service).
That's why Conservatives dumped Fire Fox, they really screwed the guy over, simply because he didn't agree with the left
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Suggest those whose privacy has been breached, respond
by cramming false and misleading information into the spy
orifices of these drones; in order to corrupt their data.

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The press is our chief ideological weapon.
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

~Ronald Reagan

Solar

Quote from: wally on April 12, 2018, 01:58:47 PM
Have you noticed that all the High Techies are Lefties?  (It has to be the pot they smoke)
Actual physical work is not befitting of girly me. :biggrin:
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Quote from: Solar on April 12, 2018, 02:32:10 PM
Actual physical work is not befitting of girly me. :biggrin:
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Quote from: wally on April 12, 2018, 01:58:47 PM
Have you noticed that all the High Techies are Lefties?  (It has to be the pot they smoke)

Not sure if it's the weed, or maybe all that smog and pollution having gone to their heads. Lol

Dubinsky

So what does everyone use? I used Mozilla years ago when it got so slow I dumped it for Google Chrome but I keep hearing more and more bad things about it. I also use IE.

Are there any better alternatives?

Solar

Quote from: Dubinsky on April 14, 2018, 02:23:12 PM
So what does everyone use? I used Mozilla years ago when it got so slow I dumped it for Google Chrome but I keep hearing more and more bad things about it. I also use IE.

Are there any better alternatives?
Try Brave, they don't track.
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