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https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/01/24/eliminate-google-from-your-life.aspx

It’s important to realize that Google catches every single thing you do online if you’re using a Google-based feature, and that the data is being used to build powerful personality profiles. As previously reported by Gawker:¹

“Every word of every email sent through Gmail and every click made on a Chrome browser is watched by the company. ‘We don’t need you to type at all,’ [Google co-founder Eric] Schmidt once said. ‘We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.’”

How these profiles — with capabilities akin to mindreading — are ultimately put to use is anyone’s guess. The main purpose of this data collection is said to be for marketing purposes, allowing companies to target users with a known interest in certain activities or products. This is bad enough, but the profiles could just as easily be used for more nefarious and liberty-infringing purposes, and we’re already seeing some evidence that this is taking place.

The 2013 article, “What Surveillance Valley Knows About You,”² is an eye-opening read that may be well worth your time, describing just how grossly invasive this data collection and distribution is, and how dangerous it can be if you end up on certain lists.

Google’s data harvesting is particularly concerning in light of its military connections,³ and the fact the company has repeatedly been caught infringing on privacy rights and misrepresenting the type and amount of data it collects and shares on its users. Make no mistake about it: Capturing user data is Google’s primary business.⁴ The fact that it provides practical services while doing so only serves as a convenient distraction from the fact that privacy violations are taking place…

•Childhood education, shrewdly developing brand loyalty and a future customer base among children through product placements in schools.⁵ Many schools no longer use books of any kind. All classwork is done on tablets or computers equipped with Google-based software such as Google Classroom, Google Docs and Gmail. As noted in a recent New York Times article:⁶

•Social engineering. Google is actively controlling the public narrative — also known as social engineering — by quietly censoring certain types of information. As just one example, Activist Post recently revealed how YouTube has been censoring Ron Paul, former congressman and 2011 Republican GOP presidential candidate, for promoting peace.⁷

•Health care, with a focus on drug promotion. For example, Google recently partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness and has launched a depression self-assessment quiz — a test that, not surprisingly, funnels querents toward a drug solution.^9,10

•The food industry, leading the way toward the normalization of meat substitutes.^11,12

•AI. Ultimately, the goal is to create self-learning AIs capable of imitating human thought processes. As noted on Google’s dedicated AI site,¹³ “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful … solving problems for our users, our customers and the world … AI … [is] providing us with new ways of looking at old problems and helping transform how we work and live, and we think the biggest impact will come when everyone can access it.”…