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Snap a photo of all the interesting places you find yourself.
Sometimes the thing you're looking for isn't something that you recognized as interesting in the moment.
Story of my life. And my divorce.
Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
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Re: Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
#42Is there a self hosted solution to aggregating and viewing this data?
I'm slowly moving away from Google and other companies clouds where I can. Would be nice to take this data out in takeout and explore it locally, but it's such a useful feature for looking back on my travels.
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Have never found myself in and cannot imagine a circumstance where I'd need to know my precise location at a point in time years ago, or really even at any time other than the present.
Proofing you were not at a crime scene at a certain time. You disabled location saving - that's suspicious? /s More serious, if it would be my data under my control, it can be fun checking the past. Exploring where you travelled and when .. but that is kind of my buisness amd not googles. But since I use a android phone, they have it anyway.
>Proofing you were not at a crime scene at a certain time. You disabled location saving - that's suspicious?
/s
Having it enabled for years and then disabling it on the night your spouse went missing is suspicious. Having it disabled for years isn't.
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#44A scheme to reduce storage size.
Store location history remotely: this is just a scheme to invade privacy and hoover up user data. Store location history locally: this is just a scheme to cut down on storage costs. There's no winning here, is there? Personally, I'm a fan of Google never giving the option to store location history remotely and this is a step in the right direction.
Yes, because they are not promising to not use it for tracking. They are just offloading the storage costs to you.
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#45I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
Can't anyone that dislikes you file a lawsuit and subpoena the data too?
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#46I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
Have never found myself in and cannot imagine a circumstance where I'd need to know my precise location at a point in time years ago, or really even at any time other than the present.
I suppose this is a bit of a special case but the US and Canadian governments both require you to provide the full list of trips from the last ten years when applying for citizenship and permanent residency. Timeline is incredibly helpful there.
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#47Reminds me of the wonderful idea, Data is the new toxic waste. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/secure-futures-magazine/data-... There's too many awful or just self-dealing forces in the world which will legislate access to user's data. There's nothing your company can do to defend itself. The situation will only intensity and get worse, governments will only ever expand their legal access to the cloud's many data-keep…
Bruce Schneier wrote a similar post back in 2016, and he was ridiculed pretty badly by everybody. Interesting to see how the opinion has shifted to the other extreme in less than 10 years.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
Re: Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
#48I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
Have never found myself in and cannot imagine a circumstance where I'd need to know my precise location at a point in time years ago, or really even at any time other than the present.
I've found it mildly useful for when I say I'll meet up with a friend but I've forgotten their address, so then look at my timeline to see where it is (since I generally remember the last time I saw a friend, if not exactly where their house was).
Re: Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
#49I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
Have never found myself in and cannot imagine a circumstance where I'd need to know my precise location at a point in time years ago, or really even at any time other than the present.
I use it to remember the names of bars and restaurants I visited on trips when making recommendations to friends.
Re: Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
#50I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
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