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Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

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Post by dannyr »

melange wrote: post #36
kamjam wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they think Google Now and all those other lovely services work? New news? I think not, move along.

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

Where have you been? Pretty much every week people posts their outrage on Google here.

So a user explicitly AUTHORIZED Google to track his/her location and we should be outraged at Google?

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#42

Post by melange »

dannyr wrote: post #41
melange wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

Where have you been? Pretty much every week people posts their outrage on Google here. So a user explicitly AUTHORIZED Google to track his/her location and we should be outraged at Google?

It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#43

Post by dannyr »

melange wrote: post #42
dannyr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where have you been? Pretty much every week people posts their outrage on Google here. So a user explicitly AUTHORIZED Google to track his/her location and we should be outraged at Google?

It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.

Have you actually used this feature?

I did. I know what it does.

I'm pretty sure nothing would dampen your fake outrage though.

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

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Post by melange »

dannyr wrote: post #43
melange wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.

Have you actually used this feature? I did. I know what it does. I'm pretty sure nothing would dampen your fake outrage though.

Where have I expressed outrage? Also you are clearly highly technology literate, so you understanding something is not representative of what regular users understand when they click through an agreement.

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#45

Post by laacz »

What gave me creeps wasn't service or collected data. It was the fact that I am using iPhone for several weeks now. I dont use phone (apps) while commuting since I'm at the wheel. Only app I am using, is Waze, but I believe that their data is not being shared with Google yet. But somehow Google still knows where I've been with gread detail and accuracy.

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#46

Post by Oletros »

melange wrote: post #36
kamjam wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they think Google Now and all those other lovely services work? New news? I think not, move along.

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

Scandal for collection data you explicitly have opted in? Really?

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#47

Post by andybak »

eliben wrote: post #30
andybak wrote: post #6

Found a bug! I travelled a few miles away from home yesterday and it's recorded as superfast visits between home and various parts of the journey in a star shape. The Android tablet that I left at home is confusing Google into recording some weird split journey where I am both at home and travelling...

Yes, I had that problem too :-) You really should disable tracking on stationary devices like tablets that are mostly at home. Your phone probably represents your location faithfully.

Except it's not always stationary and I don't want to think about settings such as that.

Better to fix the algorithm, methinks.

Re: Android recording all your moments on Google Map

#48

Post by melange »

Oletros wrote: post #46
melange wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

Scandal for collection data you explicitly have opted in? Really?

Don't you remember the scandal around apple storing local data only on people's iphones? That was explicitly opted in-to.
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