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   Message 18,764 of 20,339   
   Alice J. to Whiskers   
   Re: Are we all handing to Google the SSI   
   30 Jan 16 15:16:30   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Whiskers wrote in message   
   slrnnapica.q7.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net:   
      
   > I think that means that you used a Google account you already had, or   
   > created a new one, when you set up your Android device - and that you   
   > have forgotten or never noticed the user-name and password that you must   
   > have used in order to create or access that account.  You can use your   
   > device without knowing the user-name and password of the Google account;   
   > you only need those if you want to make changes to that account (such as   
   > add or remove an Android device from it).   
      
   You are close.   
   1. I created a google account when I first set up the device.   
   2. Then, over time, periodically I deleted them (once every few months).   
   3. So I have a current Google account (just for Google Play).   
   4. I know the password (because it's algorithmic, based on the account name).   
      
   As you said, I *never* seem to need the password ever again, so, I   
   could just as well have forgotten it and it wouldn't matter. I just   
   delete the account every few months anyway (for privacy purposes).   
      
   Since I never log into the account, and since my settings are to have   
   sync and tracking and all that stuff turned off (as I showed before),   
   does that mean that "I" don't send Google any SSIDs?   
      
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