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If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. Whenever you make a Google search your location is logged as part of the searc

If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. Whenever you make a Google search your location is logged as part of the search data (I'm in Tuscaloosa, AL; I Google "Birmingham" and it points me to "Birmingham, AL" not "Birmingham, UK"). Google routinely logs all search query data. Google loves data. So [alleged] Jobs is right about Google and Android. As for the other stuff, who knows. Now it's important to know that if you're going to commit a crime or something that your iPhone may retain information to trip up your alibi, but that's very different from being routinely tracked by the vendor of your phone's OS. (But we all use Google and it tracks all of us, so learn to love it.)

colanderman 16y ago
If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom. Whenever you make a Google search your location is logged as part of the search data False. Just did it on my Android phone. It sent me to http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-android-tmobile-us&source=android-browser-goto&q=birmingham http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-androi.... Oh crap, Google knows I'm in the US. (I'm in Tuscaloosa, AL; I Google "Birmingham" and it points me to "Birmingham, AL" not "Birmingham, UK"). …because you're querying from a US IP? …because your language is set to American English instead of British English? …because Google sends your country location but nothing else? Google routinely logs all search query data. Irrelevant: since your first point is false, the logged data is anonymous.
- kelnos 16y ago
  >>If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. >False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom. The phone's account services, however, are indeed logged in to your Google Account at all times, assuming you associated one with your phone when you set it up. The fact that the browser app isn't logged in using the same credentials isn't relevant. I agree with your other points, though. But if Google wanted to, they could surely track your location and associate it with your Google Account. Not sure how easily they could hide that from people if that were the case, though. (I've been a happy Nexus One owner for over a year now, and I kinda just don't care either way, to be honest.)

colanderman 16y ago

If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom. Whenever you make a Google search your location is logged as part of the search data False. Just did it on my Android phone. It sent me to http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-android-tmobile-us&source=android-browser-goto&q=birmingham http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-androi.... Oh crap, Google knows I'm in the US. (I'm in Tuscaloosa, AL; I Google "Birmingham" and it points me to "Birmingham, AL" not "Birmingham, UK"). …because you're querying from a US IP? …because your language is set to American English instead of British English? …because Google sends your country location but nothing else? Google routinely logs all search query data. Irrelevant: since your first point is false, the logged data is anonymous.

kelnos 16y ago
>>If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time. >False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom. The phone's account services, however, are indeed logged in to your Google Account at all times, assuming you associated one with your phone when you set it up. The fact that the browser app isn't logged in using the same credentials isn't relevant. I agree with your other points, though. But if Google wanted to, they could surely track your location and associate it with your Google Account. Not sure how easily they could hide that from people if that were the case, though. (I've been a happy Nexus One owner for over a year now, and I kinda just don't care either way, to be honest.)