Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It.

Junkee ^ | 8/15/2014 | Elizabeth Flux

[justlittleoleme]

Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location back to a central database? That’s tomorrow. Today, Google is tracking wherever your smartphone goes, and putting a neat red dot on a map to mark the occasion.

You can find that map here. All you need to do is log in with the same account you use on your phone, and the record of everywhere you’ve been for the last day to month will erupt across your screen like chicken pox.

[dennisw]

And that is why I went to a Trac phone, cuz they can’t track a Trac.

I think you mean a "disposable" pay as you go phone you pay cash for such at Walmart....And that you pay cash for more minutes by buying minutes/cards at Walmart and such

[montag813]

It says I have no history, yet I have two Google accounts linked to phones. Lucky? Or did they scrub it when this article came out?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It can't really track you that accurately unless you have your GPS turned on.

The best it can do if you have it turned off is triangulate between cell towers. They can mostly just tell which powers your phone is pinging at any given moment.

Just keep your GPS turned off unless you are actually using it.

[NorthMountain]

It happens if you have google maps app installed and tracking activated. I checked mine and my history went back two years.

Ahhhhh ... there's the secret.

Tracking must be "off" by default. I'm mildly surprised by that.

[oh8eleven]

Another reason not to upgrade to a smart phone from my flip-phone.
Agree. Have had mine for 7 years and counting ...

[wyowolf]

thats strange, i have an S4 and mine doesnt show a thing :( I feel left out...

[Slyfox]

I like my “antiquated” flip phone. I only turn it on when I want to call someone. Needless to say it costs me about $50 a year to operate.

[ballplayer]

Good then have them track the guy who is putting up the ISIS signs on his phone in front of the White House

[SubMareener]

If you don’t activate Google Maps on your iPhone, you get this message:”You have no location history from July 24, 2014 to August 22, 2014”

[mmichaels1970]

And There’s A Website To Prove It.

Proven wrong. I checked for my daughter and me and neither of us have any location logged. iPhone 5 and Galaxy 4 both synced to different gmail accounts.

[papertyger]

Hell, I’ve been a FReeper for more than fifteen years; they probably installed a beacon when I had my hips replaced ;)

[Raebie]

Mine is turned off. Easy enough to do.

[papertyger]

Hell, I’ve been a FReeper for more than fifteen years; they probably installed a beacon when I had my hips replaced ;)

[Free Vulcan]

Yep. Some call them burner phones. Not to say they can’t be tracked at all, the govt can of course if they want to. But, they generally aren’t smart phones, so Google and such can’t track their every move. About as anonymous as you’re going to get with a cell phone these days.

[Truth29]

"Good then have them track the guy who is putting up the ISIS signs on his phone in front of the White House"

Can't do that; that would be profiling a protected class member. Now, if you want Tea Party members tracked ...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And a new phone number. Doesn’t help if you keep the same phone number.

[BykrBayb]

My location history is blank.
Now I’m depressed.

[knittnmom]

I use an android, but there’s a setting that I refuse to activate, so when I checked the Google Location History site, I got “You have no location history”

[fulltlt]

You can always wrap your cell phone in tinfoil. ;)

[usual suspect]

So, if this is fact, the missing information on Trayvon’s cellphone in all probability placed him inside homes that were robbed, and traced him along side homes, in the bushes, etc.