{"id":20944,"date":"2018-04-19T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20944"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:20:07","slug":"t3-your-data-in-google-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20944","title":{"rendered":"T<sup>3<\/sup>: Your Data in Google and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/Images\/library\/ttt\/googlefacebook.jpg\" alt=\"Google and Facebook Logos\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison&#8217;s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has a <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wisc.edu\/news\/what-facebook-and-google-know-about-you\/\">nice summary<\/a> of what kinds of information Google and Facebook have collected and stored from your accounts. The following are DoIT&#8217;s recommendations for viewing, downloading, and\/or changing this data.<\/p>\n<h2>What Google Knows<\/h2>\n<p>Google also knows a great deal about you. You can request an archive of your data using their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/takeout.google.com\/\">\u201cTakeout\u201d service here<\/a>. Depending on how many of their services you\u2019ve used, the amount of data in the download can be truly staggering. It includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where you\u2019ve been, assuming you keep \u201cLocation Services\u201d enabled on your phone or other mobile device<\/li>\n<li>Everything you\u2019ve ever searched for, at least while logged into a Google account<\/li>\n<li>Which apps and websites you use, if you\u2019ve granted them access to Google services or logged into them with your Google login<\/li>\n<li>What you\u2019ve viewed and searched for on YouTube<\/li>\n<li>Your exercise and other fitness data, if you use a fitness tracker that syncs to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fit.google.com\/\">Google Fit.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The contents of your Google drive, including deleted documents and files.<\/li>\n<li>Every email you\u2019ve sent, received, deleted or archived in Gmail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google\u2019s general\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/privacy\">privacy settings<\/a>\u00a0also focus on what data is shared with others. The settings for individual services, however, offer a degree of control over what data they can gather. These settings are scattered across the various services too numerous to list here, but here are a few to get you started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/timeline?pb\">Google Maps Timeline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/myactivity\">MyActivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/permissions\">Apps with access to your account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/feed\/history\/search_history\">YouTube History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fit.google.com\/\">Google Fit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Facebook Knows<\/h2>\n<p>To see everything Facebook knows about you,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/131112897028467\">download your Facebook data here.<\/a>\u00a0This data includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every text or audio message and every file you\u2019ve ever sent or been sent, via Facebook<\/li>\n<li>All the contacts in your phone, if you use the mobile app, and grant it access<\/li>\n<li>All the audio messages you\u2019ve ever sent or been sent<\/li>\n<li>Where you\u2019ve been, assuming you\u2019re using the mobile app, and have granted it permission to access location services, and that location services themselves are enabled<\/li>\n<li>Advertisements you\u2019ve clicked<\/li>\n<li>Websites and apps you\u2019ve used via your Facebook login<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s privacy settings control over what they share about you publicly, and not necessarily what data they gather. Manage your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/settings\/?tab=privacy\">Facebook privacy settings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please read <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wisc.edu\/news\/what-facebook-and-google-know-about-you\/\">DoIT&#8217;s blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Madison&#8217;s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has a nice summary of what kinds of information Google and Facebook have collected and stored from your accounts. The following are DoIT&#8217;s recommendations for viewing, downloading, and\/or changing this data. What Google Knows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13959],"tags":[297,186,987],"class_list":["post-20944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20944"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions\/20965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}