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Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It.
Junkee ^ | 8/15/2014 | Elizabeth Flux

Posted on 08/22/2014 9:03:17 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at junkee.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: google; privacy; tracking
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To: mmichaels1970
Oh well, then. I guess since it's wrong for you, it's wrong for everyone then, eh? So when I checked it just a few minutes ago, and it showed everywhere I've been in my house this morning, I guess it's just my imagination that I have actually been in all of those places, right? I guess that since it showed all the moves my phone made on the day of my surgery a couple of weeks ago, I must not have really been in the hospital, right? Damn those pain meds...

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

81 posted on 08/22/2014 10:54:27 AM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: justlittleoleme

“You have no history for August 22”

Looks like I don’t have any history of my movements. Not that they would tell me about. The NSA knows everything anyway.


82 posted on 08/22/2014 10:55:51 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: justlittleoleme

My beeber is stuned.


83 posted on 08/22/2014 10:55:58 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: justlittleoleme

I was going to the liquor store to get boxes!!!


84 posted on 08/22/2014 10:57:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Terabitten

on the Iphone it’s under “privacy”


85 posted on 08/22/2014 11:13:57 AM PDT by cantbetooconservative (I miss Ronald Reagan)
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To: filospinato

Same results for me.


86 posted on 08/22/2014 11:21:38 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: justlittleoleme

Go,Go


87 posted on 08/22/2014 11:25:44 AM PDT by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: justlittleoleme

Guess being a troglodyte that does not carry any sort of cell phone has advantages?


88 posted on 08/22/2014 11:27:23 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: justlittleoleme

I welcome my overlords. : )


89 posted on 08/22/2014 11:28:34 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: shibumi

I watch the Burn Notice tv show and you have to throw out the cellphone everyday....or the black ops people will descend on you.


90 posted on 08/22/2014 11:31:40 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: wyowolf

I located you.... : )
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91 posted on 08/22/2014 11:33:54 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: justlittleoleme

I’m insulted. They are not tracking me at all. :)


92 posted on 08/22/2014 12:02:26 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: justlittleoleme

bkmk


93 posted on 08/22/2014 1:04:21 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: justlittleoleme

Here’s a real simple solution: Open up the settings for your Android/Google based smart phone and uncheck all boxes for GPS tracking and cell signal tracking. Whenever an app asks to turn these back on, click “decline.”

That’s what I do and when I followed the link in the article to the Google map to see where I’ve been for the last 30 days, the map is void of any evidence of my travels.

If you have a sudden need to use your smart phone map, then turn on the GPS tracking functions and then when you are done using the map, turn the GPS tracking off again.

It’s that simple.


94 posted on 08/22/2014 1:26:18 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: justlittleoleme

I use google maps fairly often. What I don’t do is sign in to the program, and I don’t let it automatically use my location.
I just checked, and it has nothing on me. Don’t log in, and you will have nothing on you too.


95 posted on 08/22/2014 1:59:18 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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To: justlittleoleme

no smartphone.


96 posted on 08/22/2014 8:02:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Free Vulcan

can’t track w/out battery in them.


97 posted on 08/22/2014 8:05:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: justlittleoleme
mark
98 posted on 08/23/2014 8:33:39 AM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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