Is Google Listening when it shouldn’t?

Be in the know and take precautions!

Most apps ask to know your location. Why? Aside from weather or travel apps — what does it mean for a music or design app to know your exact location?
This is called personalization. Through ‘cookies, which have become a pain in the butt when you browse. In the very beginning, they were meant as digital footprints. You wanted to keep track of your own self somehow, digitally. Like, keep your browsing history handy for easy access next time.
Now they are a persistent bug. A real disturbance when browsing. An endless array of check-uncheck, accept-reject, personalize, and so on. So mundane and time-consuming.

What is happening in the background? In simple English, an algorithmic machine, learning from patterns (your online habits), takes over to make suggestions. For better or worse, this is always present unless you go off the hook — like a digital outcast.

Many writers on Medium report the same or similar kind of machine behavior happening in their digital sphere every day.

The thing is, some are quick to jump to conclusions, often oversimplifying things. They are tricked to believe that the surface of things they have merely scratched tells the truth. As if the peel of orange that you can…