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> These end-to-end encrypted locations are contributed to the Find My Device network in a manner that does not allow Google to identify the owners of the nearby
by IncreasePosts 3y ago
> These end-to-end encrypted locations are contributed to the Find My Device network in a manner that does not allow Google to identify the owners of the nearby Android devices that provided the location data.
- adamomada 3y agoThere is for sure another manner that would allow google to identity the device owners though, but they left that part out
- jsnell 3y agoOh, do tell! What is the method?
- JohnMakin 3y agoAggregation of different data points in conjunction with whether a user used find my device recently. Really a bazillion methods. The fact they allegedly encrypted (their word there’s no break glass mechanism or backdoor) a single piece of location data doesn’t really matter when the other data they have in aggregate tells them precisely where you are, and this can only really help. It’s entirely reasonable at this point in history not to trust google marketing-speak that dances around stuff like this.