Posted on 01/02/2022 4:06:45 PM PST by Libloather
Do you use any of Google's apps? If so, you're probably being tracked. Even if you turned off location history on your Google account, you're not completely in the clear yet. While disabling that setting sounds like a one-and-done solution, some Google apps are still storing your location data. Just opening the Google Maps app or using Google search on any platform logs your approximate location with a time stamp.
Following a 2018 investigation by the Associated Press, however, Google has made it easier to control what location and other data is saved, and what is deleted with features like Your Data in Maps and Search, which give you quick access to your location controls. You just have to know where to look.
**SNIP**
Turn off Google's location tracking To completely shut down Google's ability to log your location, here's what to do:
1. Open Google.com on your desktop or mobile browser, and log into your Google account by using the button in the top right corner.
2. Click your user icon in the top right corner and select Manage your Google account.
3. Click Privacy & personalization.
4. Click Things you've done and places you've been.
5. Click Location history inside the History settings box. This opens Activity Controls.
6. Beneath Location History, click the button on the right that reads Turn off. This opens a pop-up window.
7. Scroll to the bottom of this window and click Pause.
What does this stop Google from storing? Pausing this setting prevents Google from storing location markers associated with specific actions and stops storing information collected from searches or other activity. Turning it off keeps your approximate location private and other places you go -- like your home address.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Right. Despite the directions, others have said they are dummy controls. They do nothing except hide Google’s tracking from you.
As far as NSA goes. They do not “track” you, rather they record your electronic emissions. Recording is not the same thing as finding.
In a room with hundreds of people taking at once, a recorder may pick up all the sound - but finding an individual conversion is not so easy. Now multiply the difficulty by 8 billion, since NSA basically records all emissions worldwide - and that’s just for one period of one day.
Just do not use any form of electronic media and you are invisible to NSA.
It seems like Everytime they update google resets Google as defaults?
And you have to reset everything again.
Yes, absolutely. They do go reset to default. The phone carrier and phone maker does to. I have to go back through every time they update my phone. They always turn the location and the bluetooth back on for sure.
THX!
Ditto
Lol. You're wrong.
“No, I do not believe that doing this stops Google/NSA from monitoring and tracking you.”
When I learned from my boss that General Dynamics was tracking my movements in the plant, I started leaving my RFID badge at my desk. Very embarrassed, my boss asked me why I’d been to the bathroom so many times last week. I said, “benign prostate hyperplasia. Would you like a doctor’s note?” But once I knew, I started leaving my badge at my desk and walking all the way across the plant to a bathroom that didn’t require me to access an electronically controlled door. The point is, if something can be done, it will be done.
People who go to riots or rob houses and carry their phones are idiots. I guarantee that every BLM rioter is known if they carry a phone. When a fellow employee was murdered in his house, the police simply got the records of all the cell phones at that address on the day in question. They had nailed the suspects, two black pimps and two underage white prostitutes, in mere hours. The girls testified against the pimps who went up for murder one.
Of course, some people are so stupid they photograph themselves committing the crimes and then post the videos on Tik Tok.
Google is on my phone. I was waiting in line for my Indiana Vehicle Emissions Test and I got a notification from Yellow Pages that read, “Will your car pass the Indiana Vehicle Emissions Test? Be sure. Make an appointment with a mechanic today.”
My car passed but I have always been bothered by that notification.
I don’t use Google, but I’m always of two minds on these settings:
1. don’t track me
2. let advertisers waste money on me
I’d love option 2 if Google didn’t make money off the advertisers.
There is a local start up here in Jacksonville, FL that just got funded. Their product is a self serve cocktail vending machine that they have put in the local NFL stadium. According to this story the “backbone” of their revenue will not be the drinks they sell. It will be “collected data.”
https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/tendedbar-raises-dollar5-million-from-investor-group
Does anyone really think that Google is still not tracking you? Given how slimy they are in everything else, really?
Bkmrk
Thanks for posting this.
Bingo.
The days of privacy or anonymity are long gone. A half dozen corporations and government agencies are logging every single key stroke, every phone call (content and metadata), every mouse click, every text, every email, and every website you visit. Therefore, you might as well use the tools they make available. They've got all your personal, "private" data anyway. You're only inconveniencing yourself.
wanna buy some tinfoil??
Typing in a address in maps to find my next tile job, i could give a rats rear if they wanna record that. when the time comes for the fit to hit the shan, well those little luxuries are all gonna be shut down anyway. so basically, quit worrying about silly stuff. js...
They will end up selling drinks to underage kids and then they’ll be out of business.
If you are going to use an Android phone and you want to install any apps of any kind you have to have a gmail account.
I believe (perhaps wrongly) that to use an Android smartphone phone, you need a Google account.
Same here - I wondered if Google’s OFF really does anything but provide a false sense of privacy.
Tracking your location
There will be no escaping it when the Mark of the Beast comes mid-Tribulation
Personal Privacy is fading quickly
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