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PSA: Google stores your precise location, tied to your account, for every moment of every day. In about 1.5 years of using android regularly I generated 700,000
by nxc18 9y ago
PSA: Google stores your precise location, tied to your account, for every moment of every day. In about 1.5 years of using android regularly I generated 700,000 data points. I understand Google maps on iOS participates in this.
Go to takeout.Google.com to see what's in your personal dossier.
- teddyfrozevelt 9y agoYou can also go to maps.google.com/timeline for a better visual.
- pjc50 9y agoFortunately you can skip this one by never signing in to Google maps, although you then lose the benefits of history. Just checked and my location timeline is blank after several years of this.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago>my location timeline is blank // The one they show you is, at least. /cynic
- breakingcups 9y agoYou can opt-out of this data collection in your Google account.
- type0 9y agoYeah, opt-out from being visible to you, at least that is the feeling for many users and I guess it all depends on how cynical or optimistic you are about Google.
- stephengillie 9y agoGoogle has started asking me to confirm if I really were at the location they detected, sometimes days or a week later. "Were you at Magnussen Park from 6pm to 8pm last Thursday?" It's as though Google is conducting a criminal investigation and I am a suspect.