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> In what kind of situation is being able to look up one's own location history actually useful? 1. Remembering the name of a restaurant you went to two week
by anonytrary 7y ago
> In what kind of situation is being able to look up one's own location history actually useful?
1. Remembering the name of a restaurant you went to two weeks ago.
2. Tracing your steps to look for something you might have lost.
3. Proving you were somewhere at a certain time.
4. Documenting a trip you took in the past.
The more personal information you generate, the more technology can help you. But if that information is tarnished or does not exist, then so too are the insights and benefits.
- jdnenej 7y agoAnd in the many years I have had a smartphone I have never once had a reason to look up my location history.
- anonytrary 7y agoYou're a single data point, so I'm not sure what your conclusion could even be.
- jdnenej 7y agoThat android should not be by default tracking every user and sending a of that data to google since most users aren't aware it is even happening and most users have no use for this data. They know where they have been.
- anonytrary 7y agoYou're cherrypicking. A user does not need to know what or how much data they produce in order for that data to do useful work for them. I've already explained why a recent location history could be useful to a location-suggestion algorithm.