What does Google know about me? (Lock and Code S06E21)

In the Malwarebytes article about Lock and Code S06E21, it notes that Google dominates much of the modern web, with a search engine handling billions of requests a day and Google Analytics embedded on tens of millions of websites. It also highlights Google’s widespread services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Chrome, and Android as household names.

The piece details the data a user obtained from Google after requesting it, including 142,729 items in Gmail, 8,079 searches, 3,050 related websites visited, and 4,610 YouTube videos watched in the past 18 months, along with movements logged via IP address when logging into Google Maps. It also mentions the user’s late-night medical symptom searches, emails, photos, notes, old freelance work, unemployment letters, teenage Chrome bookmarks, flight and hotel searches, and even searches within Gmail and Google Drive.

The article summarises the takeaway as Google knowing whatever it wants about the user, while noting the subject’s plan to change that in future data requests. It was posted on 20 October 2025.