{"id":94896,"date":"2019-08-17T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-tech-expert-says-google-chrome-has-become-spy-software"},"modified":"2019-08-17T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:14:13","slug":"a-tech-expert-says-google-chrome-has-become-spy-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-tech-expert-says-google-chrome-has-become-spy-software","title":{"rendered":"A Tech Expert Says Google Chrome Has Become Spy Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tech-expert-says-google-chrome-has-become-spy-software3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you?<\/p>\n<p>Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/browser\/\">Google Chrome<\/a> and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the Web.<\/p>\n<p>This was made possible by the Web\u2019s biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}