- google now has one more reason to collect your location and associate it with the rest of your activities - you are encouraged to use your phone even more, b

- google now has one more reason to collect your location and associate it with the rest of your activities - you are encouraged to use your phone even more, because doing so signals to your loved ones that you're ok. Using your phone pretty much means sharing even more data with google, watching their ads and buying stuff from their app store It's a pure win. For google.