For Google, the consequences could prove vast. Packaging tools like search, and including them on Android devices, offers the company a way to capture data about users — and show them more ads. Eliminating that pathway for profits and insight could prompt Google to rethink the entire ecosystem for Android, which it licenses to device makers free in a bid to ensure its wide-scale adoption while warding off such competitors as Apple.

Source: Google could face record European Union antitrust fine for Android – The Washington Post

A long time ago I recognized that Android is an invasive surveillance system. You see this in that to use GPS for any app, you are required to disclose your location directly to Google too. Google uses machines to monitor your location, to read your email, take notes and analyze your correspondence, including purchases and financial transactions that result in emailed receipts to you. Google’s Chrome is free because its main purpose is to track your every web page visit across the web as part of the Google surveillance network.

Google’s system, however, is also prone to erroneous conclusions and assumptions about us. I frequently receive email intended for someone else but Google does not know that and the content of that email is integrated into their (false) dossier on me. Today, one of California’s largest health systems emailed to my GMail account a 101 page detailed medical history of a patient, clearly violating HIPAA. First, in 2018, how is this even possible to email a medical record with no security? Second, Google’s artificial intelligence without question read this record and deduced aspects of my health – even though this record has nothing to do with my own health. Google’s AI won’t know that however because the patient has the same name as me.

Bottom line: Google’s “free” Android, Chrome, Gmail and other services are designed specifically as surveillance tools to gather as much information as possible about each and everyone of us for the purposing of marketing something to us. When we think of marketing, we usually think of products or perhaps services. But often times, the goal is to market ideas – and effectively this becomes a mechanism for highly focused propaganda messaging encouraging us to adopt someone else’s agenda.

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