Google promises that it keeps all of this data safe during transit between your computer or smartphone and its servers. It also says that its cloud infrastructure protects that data, and that it doesn't give governments "direct access" or "backdoor access" to any information.
Google provides a public transparency report on all requests and other issues that might affect users. Finally, Google promises that it doesn't sell your data, but rather uses your information to "make ads relevant" while you're browsing the web. It says it doesn't hand over any of this information to advertisers.
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You might be surprised by how much Google knows about you. CNBC will show you what Google tracks, what it knows about you, and how to limit what data is stored. VIDEO Digital Original. The fact that we have, essentially, a duopoly in the smartphone business is not for want of trying. Microsoft entered the market with a version of Windows running on ARM-based smartphones and it even made Windows available free on small-screen devices. However, the lack of apps was a major stumbling block and Microsoft abandoned its challenge, having lost billions of dollars in the attempt.
You can still buy Windows phones but most date from and will soon be out of support. Canonical also had a go at the smartphone market with its Linux-based Ubuntu Touch. It failed. In this case, the development was taken over by the UBports Community , which developed a port for the OnePlus One smartphone in Samsung tried with Tizen, which was supported by the Linux Foundation.
The latest version uses a graphical shell from Jolla , the Finnish company that appears to be its major backer. Whether it can buck the trend remains to be seen. In general, the problem with Linux on smartphones looks much like its problem on PCs.
Many and various groups enjoy developing new versions of the operating system, which are all more or less doomed from birth. None of them have the skills, the interests or the money to create viable platforms that include the hardware, apps, services, packaging, marketing, advertising, distribution and support on the sort of scale needed to sustain a real product.
Without those, they are unlikely to attract much interest beyond hobbyists and enthusiasts. Things may change thanks mainly to the current American president. Huawei was already developing its own Android app-compatible operating system, currently known as Hongmen OS, as an alternative. This is a regular question in sexuality research. Yet it has been among the toughest questions for social scientists to answer.
But sexual preference has long been among the subjects upon which people have tended to lie. I think I can use big data to give a better answer to this question than we have ever had. First, more on that survey data. Surveys tell us there are far more gay men in tolerant states than intolerant states. For example, according to a Gallup survey, the proportion of the population that is gay is almost twice as high in Rhode Island, the state with the highest support for gay marriage, than Mississippi, the state with the lowest support for gay marriage.
There are two likely explanations for this. First, gay men born in intolerant states may move to tolerant states. Second, gay men in intolerant states may not divulge that they are gay. Some insight into explanation number one — gay mobility — can be gleaned from another big data source: Facebook, which allows users to list what gender they are interested in.
About 2. And Facebook too shows big differences in the gay population in states with high versus low tolerance: Facebook has the gay population more than twice as high in Rhode Island as in Mississippi. Facebook also can provide information on how people move around. I was able to code the home town of a sample of openly gay Facebook users.
This allowed me to directly estimate how many gay men move out of intolerant states into more tolerant parts of the country. The answer? There is clearly some mobility — from Oklahoma City to San Francisco, for example. But I estimate that men moving to someplace more open-minded can explain less than half of the difference in the openly gay population in tolerant versus intolerant states.
If mobility cannot fully explain why some states have so many more openly gay men, the closet must be playing a big role. Which brings us back to Google, with which so many people have proved willing to share so much. Overall, there are more gay porn searches in tolerant states compared with intolerant states. In Mississippi, I estimate that 4. So how many American men are gay? Five per cent of American men being gay is an estimate, of course. Some men are bisexual; some — especially when young — are not sure what they are.
But one consequence of my estimate is clear: an awful lot of men in the United States, particularly in intolerant states, are still in the closet.
And, in many cases, they may even be married to women. It turns out that wives suspect their husbands of being gay rather frequently.
The states with the highest percentage of women asking this question are South Carolina and Louisiana. In fact, in 21 of the 25 states where this question is most frequently asked, support for gay marriage is lower than the national average. Closets are not just repositories of fantasies.
When it comes to sex, people keep many secrets — about how much they are having, for example. Americans report using far more condoms than are sold every year. You might therefore think this means they are just saying they use condoms more often during sex than they actually do. The evidence suggests they also exaggerate how frequently they are having sex to begin with. But this would already be more than the total number of pregnancies in the United States which is one in women of childbearing age.
In our sex-obsessed culture it can be hard to admit that you are just not having that much. On Google, there are 16 times more complaints about a spouse not wanting sex than about a married partner not being willing to talk.
There are five-and-a-half times more complaints about an unmarried partner not wanting sex than an unmarried partner refusing to text back. And Google searches suggest a surprising culprit for many of these sexless relationships.
How should we interpret this? Does this really imply that boyfriends withhold sex more than girlfriends? Not necessarily. As mentioned earlier, Google searches can be biased in favour of stuff people are uptight talking about. Still, even if the Google data does not imply that boyfriends are really twice as likely to avoid sex as girlfriends, it does suggest that boyfriends avoiding sex is more common than people let on. Google data also suggests a reason people may be avoiding sex so frequently: enormous anxiety, with much of it misplaced.
Men Google more questions about their sexual organ than any other body part: more than about their lungs, liver, feet, ears, nose, throat, and brain combined. Men conduct more searches for how to make their penises bigger than how to tune a guitar, make an omelette, or change a tyre. Do women care about penis size?
Rarely, according to Google searches. Once again, the insecurities of men do not appear to match the concerns of women. There are roughly the same number of searches asking how to make a boyfriend climax more quickly as climax more slowly.
Sex and romance are hardly the only topics cloaked in shame and, therefore, not the only topics about which people keep secrets. Many people are, for good reason, inclined to keep their prejudices to themselves. I suppose you could call it progress that many people today feel they will be judged if they admit they judge other people based on their ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. But many Americans still do. A few patterns among these stereotypes stand out. Muslims are the only group stereotyped as terrorists.
When a Muslim American plays into this stereotype, the response can be instantaneous and vicious. Google search data can give us a minute-by-minute peek into such eruptions of hate-fuelled rage.
Consider what happened shortly after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, on 2 December, And this minute-by-minute search data can tell us how difficult it can be to calm this rage. Four days after the shooting, President Obama gave a prime-time address to the country.
He wanted to reassure Americans that the government could both stop terrorism and, perhaps more importantly, quiet this dangerous Islamophobia. Obama appealed to our better angels, speaking of the importance of inclusion and tolerance. The rhetoric was powerful and moving. But was it? Google search data suggests otherwise. Together with Evan Soltas, then at Princeton, I examined the data. In other words, Obama seemed to say all the right things.
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