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I personally find this incredibly creepy. Granted, I accepted the TOS to grant this data but I've never seen it visualized in such raw form.

• jfoster 13y ago
  You have to enable it. When you have it enabled, they send you reminders every so often letting you know that it's enabled and how to disable it. It's so uncreepy. Customer asked company to do something, company does it but insists on reaching out occasionally to remind you that they're doing it and letting you know how to turn it off. How can this service exist for customers who want it without being "creepy"?
  • leoedin 13y ago
    I can't remember enabling it. That isn't to say that I didn't enable it, but I can't remember actively saying "yes, please track my every move". I don't think that I would have said yes to that if I was aware of exactly what I was agreeing to. It appears that the complete tracking of my life started when I bought a nexus 4 - I'd imagine that I clicked through a box without really understanding what it was saying. I will categorically say that I've never been reminded that this is enabled. Until today, when I realised that a complete log of every movement I made in the last 8 months was available, I had no idea that this level of information was viewable to anyone logged into my google account (I'd imagine that something similar has always been available to law enforcement regardless of opt-in status). I'm not arguing that it shouldn't exist (I now understand why google now always uses my exact route when estimating commute times, and I did have a nice nostalgic trawl through this year's activities) but I do think that transparency that it does exist could be greater.
    • ars 13y ago
      I remember enabling it. They asked very clearly do I want it or not. It was 8 months ago, maybe you just forgot.