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Stop using Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc if you care about privacy!
I noticed you left out Apple - the same company that handed over control of their cloud servers to a Chinese state run company.
etc covers too many to list though... because everyone is doing it (even yc companies)
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CCTVs don't invade my privacy by opening up my entire digital life to the police, including conversations and pictures that have nothing to do with the crime scene. It's completely different.
> CCTVs don't invade my privacy by opening up my entire digital life to the police Well, neither do the sorts of warrant mentioned in the article. They don't even get phone numbers, just arbitrary phone IDs and where they were located to be inside the region. If they were scooping up everyone's digital fingerprints en masse without probable cause and without a warrant, then that's something else entirely, but that di…
"It's just metadata!"
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If you have all location services turned on then your phone tracks your location constantly in real time. Go to My Timeline on Google Maps and it can show you a full map of everywhere you went on any particular day.
No, only if you allow to track you even when you’re not using it. Unless you are speaking about android and in that case it may well be like this, no idea honestly.
I possibly wasn't clear enough. That's what I meant when I wrote "If you have all location services turned on". Location tracking is part of location services.
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I’ve never once received, nor heard anyone else who’s received such an email. Are my family and friends the anomaly or are you?
Replying to cbr/muro - those are emails about specific people that you have allowed to see your location data. The NC police are getting warrants for everyone in an area's location data. It doesn't matter if you've shared it - GPS, cell-tower data is passively collected by Google and then provided en masse to the police when subpoenaed. Nobody receives periodic emails from Google saying "you have your location servic…
Is there by chance another one with location history or am I imagining things?
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Replying to cbr/muro - those are emails about specific people that you have allowed to see your location data. The NC police are getting warrants for everyone in an area's location data. It doesn't matter if you've shared it - GPS, cell-tower data is passively collected by Google and then provided en masse to the police when subpoenaed. Nobody receives periodic emails from Google saying "you have your location servic…
Ah, you are probably right. Is there by chance another one with location history or am I imagining things?
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Ah, you are probably right. Is there by chance another one with location history or am I imagining things?
You can go into your account settings under Personal Info and Privacy\Manage Your Google Activity and toggle your location history if you want to turn it off, but I've never had them update me via email. Given how much information is in that, I'd be surprised if they prompted anyone to go review it since most folks would likely feel like it's creepy to see a map of everywhere they went.
I'm sure I get it by email approx once per month.