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Location History is opt-in, and Google sends you frequent email reminders that you are opted in. I have email reminders in my gmail account dating back to 2011
by Zikes 11y ago
Location History is opt-in, and Google sends you frequent email reminders that you are opted in. I have email reminders in my gmail account dating back to 2011 when it was still called Latitude.
If you want to see this info and/or enable/disable it: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
- lstamour 11y agoExcept you opt-in by agreeing to use Google Now, e.g. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/google-now-for-android-will-automatically-remember-where-you-parked/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/google-now-for-androi... I'm sure the implications of this isn't obvious for most people, just as express settings in Windows aren't obvious.
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- mortehu 11y agoGoogle Now isn't all or nothing. It gracefully degrades as you disable each data source.
- lstamour 11y agoThat's fine, but I don't personally recall a screen saying "Enable location but not location history" in my Google Now setup process. So they opt you in by default too. You can exclude data from Cortana's "Notebook" just as you can from Google Now.
- marbiru 11y agocan you say a little more about what these "frequent email reminders" that you receive look like, and how frequent they are? I've just discovered that I was opted in, had no idea I was opted in, and have never received an email saying I was opted in -- I'm genuinely curious what I missed. (Maybe somehow I opted out of the emails without knowing it either...)