The report said that short of chucking your phone into the river, shunning the internet, and learning to read paper maps again, there's not much you can do to keep Google from collecting data about you.

The report was compiled by a Vanderbilt University computer scientist, Professor Douglas Schmidt, who led an analysis of Google's data collection practices.

His report outlines a myriad ways the company amasses information about the billions of people who use the world's leading search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system, not to mention products like Gmail, platforms like YouTube, and products like Nest.

Although the report doesn't contain any bombshells, it presents an overview of Google's efforts to learn as much as possible about people.

The report said that Google collects far more data than Facebook, according to the report, and it is the world's largest digital advertising company.

“Its vast portfolio of services, from Android to Google Search to Chrome to Google Pay, create a firehose of data intercepted data as it was transmitted from Android smartphones to Google servers." 

The researchers claims that almost every move you make online is collected and collated, from your morning routine - such as music tastes, route to work, and news preferences - to errands, including calendar appointments, webpages visited, and purchases made.

Google can identify users' interests with remarkable accuracy, the report states.

Google has dismissed the report which it said was commissioned by a professional DC lobbyist group, and written by a witness for Oracle in its ongoing copyright litigation with Google.
“So, it's no surprise that it contains wildly misleading information."