Sunday, March 29, 2015

App Review - Google Translator & More

The Real Deal
Personal Free Universal Live Translator:
Google Translate









Things to note:

  • 90 Languages
  • Natural conversation translation
  • 4 Stars on the latest update!


What are you giving up?!


Information is the cost. 

You give up basic information:

  1. Name
  2. Email
  3. Telephone
  4. Credit Cards
  5. Forced creation of Google+ account
  6. Services you use
  7. How you use them
  8. Videos you watch on youtube
  9. View and Interactions w/ ads
  10. Device specific info
  11. Hardward model
  12. OS
  13. Device identifiers
  14. Mobile network
  15. Association of that data with google account.




You also give up more personal information:

Actual location via:
  • IP address
  • GPS

Use of other sensors that "provides Google with information on nearby devices."
  • Wi-Fi access points
  • Cell Tower (triangulation)

Local Storage:

  • Personal information stored locally on devise by:
  • Browser web storage
  • Application data caches.
Using Cookies and anonymous identifiers
  • Data used for advertising services
  • Push additional Google products/services







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