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The main thrust of this rambling article seems to be that Google Maps and location services more generally might not be misused by Google itself but instead sho
by duality 8y ago
The main thrust of this rambling article seems to be that Google Maps and location services more generally might not be misused by Google itself but instead shown wholesale to a third-party concert app which then leaks it to my "creepy stalker ex-boyfriend." Is there anything new in this article or rehashing familiar hypothetical scaremongering? Not saying that handing over data, especially very personal data, is to be taken lightly but this article adds nothing interesting to the conversation.
Edit: it's looking like the hypothetical sharing of your data with third parties is a fabrication from this article. Can anyone show how this sharing might happen?
- owlninja 8y ago>6. Is using location services worth your children being followed to school? It is a little over the top
- danso 8y agoThat’s funny. One of my former colleagues said she was finally convinced to buy smartphones for her junior high age children when they were followed/stalked by a stranger when walking home from school.
- ChrisSD 8y agoI personally wasn't aware they directly sold the data. I always assumed they acted as intermediaries to advertisers,
- duality 8y agoI'm not aware of that either. What API scope would share your location data with a third-party developer? https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescopes https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescope... doesn't turn up anything obvious.
- jimktrains2 8y agoThat would implying you giving access to a 3rd party. I think everyone else is talking about something like Google selling access to said data directly, not via the normal api.
- aorav 8y agoThey don't (sell your data directly), explained by Google itself https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/ https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/ Of course it's up to you how much you trust what they write there.
- xbmcuser 8y agoIt's in Google best interest to not give others the data it collects as it can rent out the results multiple times to multiple customers. Where as giving data means they earn money of it one time.
- nartz 8y agoSecond this motion. It's a metoo article trying to capitalize on the data privacy wave to garner few cheap views. Skip.