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I would really like to explicitly tell Google to stop tracking my location. Period. Despite what might be in their terms of service,this tracking is a violation
by brylie 8y ago
I would really like to explicitly tell Google to stop tracking my location. Period. Despite what might be in their terms of service,this tracking is a violation of privacy. I have never given informed consent to such locstion tracking, and still get prompts to 'rate this location' despite having explicitly disabled location history. Google location tracking is increasingly unethical.
- askvictor 8y agoI think your realistic options are to move the EU or to stop using Google. Maybe one day they'll offer a subscription based fee for it's services, but for now you pay with your data.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoFrance and Germany are looking pretty good these days.
- unpopular42 8y agoOh yeah, you might get mugged and killed if you go to a wrong area of Paris at night, or your wife may get raped in Germany and the police will cover it up because immigrants can't be touched. But you'll be safe from the evil Google, so you've got that going for you which is nice.
- inferiorhuman 8y agoWhat?
- bigbluedots 8y ago[citation needed]
- stochastic_monk 8y agoMy family never had problems in Paris, and they lived there quite happily for four years. I even did an internship at UParis-Sud. It’s a wonderful place in my experience.
- askvictor 8y agoDon't feed the trolls
- dx034 8y agoMost EU countries do. Southern Europe can also be very nice and better suited if you don't like rain (although southern France works for that as well). Apart from the language barrier, moving within the EU isn't much more difficult than moving between states in the US.
- ahbs66 8y ago>Apart from the language barrier Like that's a small thing. I would love to move to Eastern Europe or Czechia, but alas
- la_oveja 8y agoIn EU they're still tracking you, for now. Every time I get near a McDonalds it asks me to take a photo of it.
- jdietrich 8y agoThat's because you've got location services turned on. There is an opt-out, but it does break Google Assistant.
- mdekkers 8y agoit does break Google Assistant From personal experience, it breaks a ton of stuff, including my patience with the endless "turn on location services" prompts.
- dx034 8y agoI turned all assistant features off (search obviously still works) and only location on for apps. Location history and sharing are also off but I'm not sure if they still save some location information. I'll wait for the 25th May and then download data (I'm in the EU) to see what they have..
- raihansaputra 8y agoYou now can download what's currently available through Google's Takeout. Maybe once GDPR is in effect more stuff can be available, but I'm not sure what those will be.
- dx034 8y agoThat's why I wait. Don't want to do the work twice in one month. It could be that they already provide all data but I'm only sure from the 25th.
- la_oveja 8y agoI have location history off, but obviously need location turned on for my apps to work. I only want to turn off Google (I even froze the Google Search app).
- gaius 8y agoIf Google or FB ever offered a paid option they would still track you. Why wouldn’t they?
- askvictor 8y agoGoogle offer enterprise services for a fee, and don't track you.
- lakechfoma 8y agoI wonder about this with news sites that are increasingly going paywalled. Do they also turn the tracking or even ads entirely off, or do we just pay money to be tracked now?
- gaius 8y agoI am a paid subscriber to NYT and it’s still an adfest.
- ahbs66 8y agoSo buy an iPhone. They won't stop tracking you because that's how they make money. That's why their OS is free.
- tantalor 8y agoiOS is free
- stevenleeg 8y agoNot really. The price of iOS is baked into the (usually higher) costs of the hardware. The parent comment is presumably referring to the fact that Android phone manufacturers are allowed to put Android on their devices for free, as Google instead makes money on the advertising/service revenue they get from your usage of the OS.