By Justin Gray
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 22:50:00
ATLANTA — Postcards from Google are showing up in mailboxes across the country, offering the chance to earn hundreds in reward points if you take part in a study.
But as Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray learned, it includes your passwords, social security number and much more.
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The mailing says Device Usage Study. Use your smartphone devices as you “normally would.” You can earn up to “$540 a year” — not in cash, but in reward points — for gift cards.
If you sign up for the study, you agree to share your web and app activity with the company. The company says it will use that data to make their platforms better.
“It did raise my red flags,” said Kalleigh Lane with All About Cookies.
Lane’s group is focused on online privacy that tests things, like ad blockers, to make sure they work.
“It’s incredibly invasive … but when I dug into the privacy policy, that’s when things started like going…
