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So google is tracking your google maps data everywhere you go? any way to opt out of the surveillance?
by suyash 2y ago
So google is tracking your google maps data everywhere you go? any way to opt out of the surveillance?
- firtoz 2y agoYes Yes - throw your and your friends and your relatives' phones into a river
- QuarterReptile 2y agoOn the off chance that you are serious: get a Pixel phone, install Graphene OS, follow the mobile Extreme Privacy guide (https://inteltechniques.com/book7a.html https://inteltechniques.com/book7a.html), and be ready for inconveniences.
- firtoz 2y agoAre location and mapping services genuinely privacy friendly?
- QuarterReptile 2y agoI'm not sure if I've understood your question, but I'll take a shot: By using an offline GPS app, you no longer have the need to coordinate with a centralized server. In exchange, you will lose traffic data. There may be some app that gives traffic with a level of privacy loss that meets your needs, but generally the data collection compromises your privacy, and the data is valuable... Anyway, OSMAnd is a popular F-Droid app I remember hearing mentioned. But, if you don't need traffic, then you could theoretically navigate with all your radios off, so you wouldn't be talking to towers. The experience will probably be quite slow, even with all the navigation constellations available now. The increasing incorporation of L2 and L5 GPS may improve that, but generally you're asking for niche performance, so I wouldn't hold my breath. I think people typically leave data on and prefer to just buy prepaid phone plans anonymously, paired with some combination of VPN usage and not using the phone for anything with a login, hoping to break the chain of tracking between the phone and the user's identity. It's probably enough to stay out of geofence warrants, at least.
- suyash 2y agoI appreciate your suggestions but why is it so hard to have something akin to a real 'private mode' in Google Maps app where it doesn't track you at all.
- QuarterReptile 2y agoWhy is it so hard to just pay the ransom for your encrypted data without funding further ransomware or nuclear weapons development in North Korea? It's baked into the very core of the offering.
- firtoz 2y agoGoogle doesn't benefit at all with such an offering, in fact, it would generate losses.
- Rastonbury 2y agoYou can adjust some settings to reduce targeted advertising and ad measurements and such. I do get worse (irrelevant) ads but it's not like Google is making less money, I never click them either way
- Rastonbury 2y agoIf you dig there's options to turn off Map timeline history, also Google activity tracking, Ads privacy and to remove your advertising ID. Whether these actually do anything is uncertain