Data Search

While looking at my data history on google, the searches that came up was not surprising. It showed the usual google searches as well as all of the Youtube that I watch while not doing homework. One thing that was very surprising is that when I turned on all of the activity for just today, there were seventy-one different things that I have done between my laptop and phone. This caught me off-guard a bit because I have been doing nothing all day. I have been on my phone watching videos and checking social media, but I never understood how much I actually click on until I look at the data. Some of the things that the search is not showing are things that I do outside of Google or Facebook. The timeline of my activity is not completely correct because there are many other applications that I use daily which could be used for this data. When it comes to if I am comfortable with this, I would have to say no because the data from my phone is not going to my phone provider; rather it is available to people within a company that my phone should not have much affiliation with. The comforting part about this search for me is that I am signed into my alternate Gmail account on my laptop, so the search may not be picking up too much information from my phone because I rarely ever sign into that email on my phone. This was comforting because it turned out to be somewhat of a safety net that I didn’t know I was using for if someone would try to access my information because they would not be able to track every aspect of me. Another part of the search that was surprising is that the ability to check anyone’s history is fairly easy because all you need to do is change the phone number. This is a bit odd because doing that gives this search tool the ability to stalk others. I feel that this tool needs to be updated to give the user more privacy of their history, even if it may not show everything sometimes.