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I just had to provide records of my past travel history for immigration purposes and I couldn't find any of my i-94 records. I could sort through emails to find
by dudus 5y ago
I just had to provide records of my past travel history for immigration purposes and I couldn't find any of my i-94 records. I could sort through emails to find past flight tickets but the data from my Google location tracking history proved to be much more reliable and easy to parse. I was able to get all my flight dates from past 5 years easily with it.
I also like to look for places I've been in the past and Google maps can tell me the dates I've been to a specific place in the past.
So it does provide quite a lot of value at least for me. I completely understand the sentiment that seems to be a majority on hacker news how that's quite a bad idea, how I'm giving away my privacy for convenience and yada yada. But I made the personal decision that Yes it's worth exposing this data to Google and possibly law enforcement that require Google to disclose this information for the convenience I get in return.
- Scoundreller 5y agoYou couldn’t use CBP’s travel history page? https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search
- dudus 5y agoI've used this in the past but currently it's showing no records for all my 3 passports.
- Scoundreller 5y agoWeird, but my experience is mostly with the land border so maybe it’s different
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat is fine as long as it never becomes an expectation. Not a good idea to lie on visa applications, but I don't really disclose travel within the EU for example (I am from the EU). I don't leave obvious digital traces and I think people wanting to know this info can find different hobbies and better jobs.