{"id":23272,"date":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/creepy-thing-google-knows-about-you\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"creepy-thing-google-knows-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/creepy-thing-google-knows-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy thing Google knows about you"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>You\u2019ll want to test this for yourself.<\/h3>\n<p>Reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, journalist Alex Hern has discovered something very creepy about Google.<\/p>\n<p>It happens when you search Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you type my name, Alex Hern, into Google, it brings you, not to The Guardian, where I work (and which would make sense), but to the pub in London Bridge where I play the card game Netrunner most weeks. To the best of my knowledge, I\u2019ve been linked online to that pub once, ever,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-05-21_at_3.24.40_pm.png\" width=\"516\" height=\"197\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now others are searching their own names in Google Maps, and what they&#8217;re seeing is&nbsp;freaking them out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-05-21_at_3.24.51_pm.png\" width=\"519\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-05-21_at_3.25.10_pm.png\" width=\"516\" height=\"187\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-05-21_at_3.25.17_pm.png\" width=\"516\" height=\"180\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens for you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/something-wrong-with-this-photo\">CAN YOU SPOT WHAT&#8217;S WRONG WITH THIS PHOTO?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/photo-saved-woman-s-life\">THIS PHOTO SAVED THIS WOMAN&#8217;S LIFE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll want to test this for yourself. Reporting for The Guardian, journalist Alex Hern has discovered something very creepy about Google. It happens when you search Google Maps. \u201cIf you type my name, Alex Hern, into Google, it brings you, not to The Guardian, where I work (and which would make sense), but to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-23272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Creepy thing Google knows about you - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/creepy-thing-google-knows-about-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creepy thing Google knows about you\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You\u2019ll want to test this for yourself. 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