Wednesday, August 15, 2018
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Everyone expects "OFF" to mean really "OFF"...
Ryan Nakaashima reported this on the Associated Press News site:
"Storing your minute-by-minute travels carries privacy risks and has been used by police to determine the location of suspects — such as a warrant that police in Raleigh, North Carolina, served on Google last year to find devices near a murder scene. So the company will let you 'pause' a setting called Location History.
Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you’ve been. Google’s support page on the subject states: 'You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.'
That isn’t true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking."
