I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I’m very sure there is even more data they have.

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That’s why I’m still in doubt wether to use my fingerprint to unlock my phone. Would be convenient, but where is it stored, who can access it?

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Stored locally

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are you sure about that?

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I don’t see how your fingerprint could be used for advertising

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Anybody with access to your finger, which means they don’t need you to be conscious or even alive to access your phone.

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Needing a password/pattern instead makes them want to keep you alive tho. Good opsec.

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Depends if you wanna be remembered as John Smith instead of “Ah Yeah, John Smith the furry midget lover”

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Smart for many reasons as people listed here. Your fourth amendment rights to your phone also go out the window when you use biometrics like fingerprint. PIN/password is protected, fingerprint/face scan is not. Backwards world we’re in, huh?

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