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Personally, I'll be retaining my data indefinitely. I like that they give this option, but I've used the indefinitely retained data multiple times and never bee

Personally, I'll be retaining my data indefinitely. I like that they give this option, but I've used the indefinitely retained data multiple times and never been hurt by it, so far as I know. I've used it for "When did we go there?" Type questions, or "What was the name of that restaurant?" And also, just sitting down to look at the history and see "What was I doing X years ago" brings back memories. I think it's neat to see something like, I went to the theater three years ago? What did I see? Ohhh, I bet it was X! I feel like it's something like an automated diary of my life.

leokennis 6y ago
Pro tip if you want this and also value your privacy: take photos of places you visited, books you read etc. on your iPhone. On the Photo map you can see your photos grouped by location, on the normal photo timeline grouped by year/month/day and the ML powered search is good enough to recognize stuff like “book”, “restaurant”, “beach” etc.
mleonhard 6y ago
I want to keep this data, too. But I want to keep it on my own devices, in my home, running software that I control. This option doesn't exist yet.
- ALittleLight 6y ago
  I suppose there's some way to download it from Google. If nothing else they'd to support GDPR. If you could download it, ingest it into some system, maybe add a shell script on your phone to ping a server once a minute with your geo data or something... It seems doable, but also like it would take some effort to get to be nearly as good as Google is now. I get why some people want to be private from Google, but it doesn't really bother me.
- Avamander 6y ago
  Browsers are IMHO the biggest culprit, I really wish Chrome had an option to have a longer memory of things like visited pages. On the other hand, Chrome remembers some thing for far too long, sites that I haven't visited for a long long time still exist in chrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies+and+site which is rather annoying.

leokennis 6y ago

Pro tip if you want this and also value your privacy: take photos of places you visited, books you read etc. on your iPhone. On the Photo map you can see your photos grouped by location, on the normal photo timeline grouped by year/month/day and the ML powered search is good enough to recognize stuff like “book”, “restaurant”, “beach” etc.

mleonhard 6y ago

I want to keep this data, too. But I want to keep it on my own devices, in my home, running software that I control. This option doesn't exist yet.

ALittleLight 6y ago
I suppose there's some way to download it from Google. If nothing else they'd to support GDPR. If you could download it, ingest it into some system, maybe add a shell script on your phone to ping a server once a minute with your geo data or something... It seems doable, but also like it would take some effort to get to be nearly as good as Google is now. I get why some people want to be private from Google, but it doesn't really bother me.
Avamander 6y ago
Browsers are IMHO the biggest culprit, I really wish Chrome had an option to have a longer memory of things like visited pages. On the other hand, Chrome remembers some thing for far too long, sites that I haven't visited for a long long time still exist in chrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies+and+site which is rather annoying.