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I am not if Google (Facebook, etc.) always respect the location tracking preferences of users. https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tra
by geraneum 5y ago
I am not if Google (Facebook, etc.) always respect the location tracking preferences of users.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location...
https://apnews.com/article/north-america-science-technology-business-ap-top-news-828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb https://apnews.com/article/north-america-science-technology-...
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-location-data-violates-user-trust-nothing-will-happen-2018-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-location-data-violate...
- ac29 5y agoAll those articles seem to say if you leave App Tracking on, and use Google Maps, yes, Google will save your location. Someone who is anti-Google shouldn't be leaving any tracking on, and shouldn't be using Google's Apps. If you have any evidence that someone who uses Android without a Google account and doesnt use Google Apps is still getting tracked by Google, I'd be interested to see it.
- simfree 5y agoApple also tracks your GPS trace just like Google Maps does, the difference is they don't seem to share it with you. Apple Maps employees use these "anonymized" GPS traces to correct roads, show business hours, find new points of interest that are unmapped, etc
- applefangirl 5y agoThey don’t share it with you because they can’t. It’s anonymized.
- simfree 5y agoThe GPS trace is not practically anonymized, comparison with public and semipublic datasets would deanonymize a large portion of the GPS traces.