Blaze Media By LEON WOLF
A new report from Forbes suggests that mobile phone users who have Chrome installed on their phone are subject to massive invasion of privacy risks, and encourages users to delete the mobile browser from their phone. According to the report, Google’s data harvesting practices are far more intrusive and pervasive even than Facebook’s, and the data that Google harvests is more widely and freely shared with third parties without your active consent.
Last month, it was revealed that the Facebook app on your iPhone continues to track your location data on your phone even if you have specifically set your iPhone to “never” allow location tracking data, and that there is no way to avoid this other than deleting the Facebook app from your phone. Now, according to Forbes’ cybersecurity reporter Zak Doffman, it has been revealed that what Google is doing is actually even worse.
Reportedly, while Apple has changed their privacy practices to require you to grant permission to third party apps to track your location data, Android users and users who have Chrome installed on their phone are having their location data gathered by default – even when browsing is set to private or incognito mode. Even worse, while Facebook was collecting this data for its own uses, Google makes this highly sensitive location data “available to any site that asksâby default.”
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