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It always has for me, and not in tiny-font or legal language either: "To help you through your day, Google needs to: Use and store your location for traffic al
by mikecb 10y ago
It always has for me, and not in tiny-font or legal language either:
"To help you through your day, Google needs to: Use and store your location for traffic alerts, directions, and more. User your synced calendars, Gmail, Chrome, and Google data for reminders and other suggestions."
This topic does come up a lot here, and yet this is as direct and concise a way to put it as I can imagine. I wonder what those who have been surprised by the services they have opted into would suggest to improve their understanding of what they are potentially agreeing to?
- int_19h 10y agoYes, it is opt-in, which is good. But I feel that for a casual user "use and store your location" doesn't fully get across the point that it's going to track your location in near real-time and make inferences like "this place is your home" about it. And this is a general problem - people share all kinds of private information about themselves, without full understanding of the kind of analysis that is possible on that data these days. I personally don't have a problem with the tech (and I've used Latitude way back, so it's not like any of it is new).