[justlittleoleme]

Actually it goes back way longer than a month.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Another reason not to upgrade to a smart phone from my flip-phone.

[cripplecreek]

Its one of the reasons I have no interest in a top of the line phone with all the bells and whistles. With my cheap tracfone, the tracking is minimal.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, Apple iOS Maps does a crappy job, but at least they don’t do that ... as far as we know.

It is part of the reason that I have a dumb phone plus iPod Touch rather than a SmartPhone.

[livius]

I actually like seeing where I’ve been, and as for paranoid fantasies of drones tracking you, well, the important thing is to not have a government that does that kind of thing. There’s no going back on technology; we just have to control what it’s used for.

[Free Vulcan]

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

[1rudeboy]

That’s cool . . . I’m 2,000 miles away in Palo Alto, CA. I love Palo Alto.

[G Larry]

I’m about 5 years out from a “smartphone”....

[filospinato]

Just checked two gmail accounts I use from my work phone, shows no data from either.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[dhs12345]

Ya. Bothers me. If I search for something on my smart phone, later on I'll get pings offering more information about the subject.

No doubt — they are monitoring my searches.

I searched for what Joan Rivers said about Selena Gomez and Israel and I started getting spam about Gomez and Bieber and how they broke up, got back together. Then I started getting a flood of info about other teen gossip. LOL.

I was able to stop it, though.

[JoeDetweiler]

I just looked my phone up in the White pages using my name. And danged if it doesn’t show everywhere that phone has been for the last 15 years!

[DownInFlames]

Not for me! I have no Hx.

[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.

[wyowolf]

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

[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.