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Your every move tracked: How to remove Apple and Google’s location data
nypost ^ | 4/7/2023 | kim komando

Posted on 04/07/2023 6:55:01 PM PDT by bitt

It’s no secret anymore. Nearly everything you do online is tracked or recorded and used to learn more about you.

Many of your data points ends up on creepy people search sites. You’ll be shocked to find your full name, address, relatives, phone number, and more. Here’s a list of sites where you can opt out of this invasion of privacy.

On your phone, apps are likely watching — and reporting — more than you realize. Take back control with just a few minutes in your settings.

Navigation apps use your phone’s GPS location to determine exactly where you are. Every time you navigate somewhere, that location is stored in your profile. Prepared to be shocked at what Apple and Google know about your wanderings. Google saves where you have been

You probably expect that your maps app is keeping track, but have you ever looked back to see all this tracking in action?

If you’ve used Google Maps for years, there’s probably a startling amount of info about everywhere you’ve gone. Check it out:

When signed in, click on your profile picture, then select Manage your Google Account. Or go to your Google Account page. On the left, click on Data & privacy. Under “History Settings,” click on Location History. At the bottom, click Manage history.

You’ll see a map with details like your saved home, work locations, and trips. You can search by year or down to a specific day in the Timeline box in the top left corner.

Pick a date from a couple of years ago just for fun. You’ll see a blue bar if a trip was recorded. Click a day to see everywhere you went, down to the time and mileage. If your photos are synced to your account, you

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21 posted on 04/07/2023 7:31:15 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: bitt

Watching the Alex Murdaugh trial, I learned just how much information your cell phone records. It’s insane. They couldn’t have more info on you if you had a crew of FBI agents watching you and taking notes, 24/7.


22 posted on 04/07/2023 7:32:44 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: bitt

Last summer we took a vacation trip from Michigan to Denver CO. We stopped for gas right after we entered Iowa, just a couple of miles before we got to the “Iowa 80” gas station, which we had seen on several billboards. A couple of days later, while driving around Denver, listening to XM Sirius radio, we heard an ad for the Iowa 80 gas station. I seriously doubt that an individual gas station in the middle of nowhere would be advertising to EVERY XM radio receiver in the country. This had to be an ad targeted to only our Sirius registration number. In my life, I’ve never heard another Iowa 80 gas station radio advertisement, ever.

For that to happen, though, Google would have to know our gas purchasing history, and, at least, our use of Sirus on our XM radio in the car, and then give that information to Sirius, all without our knowledge. That’s quite a feat.


23 posted on 04/07/2023 7:33:54 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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To: bitt

Bookmark.


24 posted on 04/07/2023 7:35:44 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Gay State Conservative

I suppose that if I was a criminal I wouldn’t want it though.


Just wait until they redefine the meaning of ‘criminal’ and crimes.

If they can do it to Pres Trump..........


25 posted on 04/07/2023 7:40:51 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

A friend coming home from work saw the neighbor on a new riding lawn mower. They chatted for awhile and the friend commenting that he was thinking of getting one.

They finished chatting and he went inside. Pulled his phone out of his pocket to check his emails. It already had an ad for riding lawn mowers (and he continued to get them). The idea of a new mower had just occurred to him while talking with the neighbor. He figures the phone is listening in all the time.


26 posted on 04/07/2023 7:41:17 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: bitt

https://www.block-itpocket.com

They can’t know your location if they can’t get a signal.


27 posted on 04/07/2023 7:42:23 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: 21twelve

I suspect that might have happened to me too.


28 posted on 04/07/2023 7:44:01 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Bullish
"Throw your cell phone into the harbor."

Sounds like the best option to me. I don't use my cell phone for anything other than calls and the occasional text from my doctor, and mail pharmacy. I turned off the majority of the apps on my iPhone when I got it. I never used the Maps app on it, so there wasn't any saved locations or recent ones either. I turned off my location on it quite a while ago, as someone else had posted a similar thread about turning it off.

29 posted on 04/07/2023 7:53:19 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: bitt

It’s not just your phone. It almost every late model car with whatever variant of On-Star your vehicle manufacturer uses. Have a Lo-Jac anti-theft type of device on your car? It tracks and records every movement and catalogs where your car has been.


30 posted on 04/07/2023 7:53:56 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: bitt

For starters, if you value your personal security and privacy, don’t use anything made by G**gle. Using ANYTHING with the G**gle name on it is as much as begging for a proctological exam every time you use it. All G**gle services are created on the principle of collecting any and all information on you that they can, any way that they can.

Android can be made less intrusive but you have to be cleverer than the evil geniuses at G**gle who created it (requires rooting, installing android firewall [AFWall_Plus], Magisk [with MicroG module], yadd, yadda, yadda), but that involves a heavy investment in time to mod your phone and then scrounge for solutions to the inevitable bugs and glitches.

A simpler solution is a 3rd-party ROM. Android is ‘open source’ and there are a number of 3rd-parties who have created de-G**gled Android and make it available free. The oldest and best developed is LineageOS, the modern descendant of Cyanogenmod, but they LineageOS doesn’t make ROMS for every phone, and mostly just higher-end stuff (lineageos.org for details). LineageOS ansd MicroG parted ways over philosophical differences but you still can get LineageOS with MicroG built in (from MicroG) but their offerings cover even fewer devices than LineageOS does.

https://www.xda-developers.com/most-popular-custom-roms-android/

If Mark37 can make a go of it, more power to them. Regarding their statement, “the planned obsolescence economy is a fraud and should be stopped,” be advised that if you buy a phone with a non-removable battery, that in itself is “planned obsolescence” because it puts a hard limit on a phone’s lifespan. And $400 is pretty spendy for a used phone that’s already chewed through some undisclosed portion of its battery life.

And BTW, GPS isn’t the only thing that gives away your location. You phone is constantly ‘pinging’ cell towers to remain aware of which ones are closest. And it records the identity of those towers, which can be used to track your location.


31 posted on 04/07/2023 7:56:37 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: bitt
How did society manage during the days when one, or two ATT landline telephones were in the house and that's all there was??

If you don't want to be tracked AND not be flagged into a category of "Suspicious people who encapsulate their phones in metal cases until they want to use them", don't carry your phone with you everywhere you go... AND DO NOT THINK BECAUSE YOU TURNED OFF YOUR PHONE THAT IT IS REALLY OFF.

32 posted on 04/07/2023 8:03:53 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Bullish
Throw your cell phone into the harbor.

While you are at it throw the TV, the thermostat, the web cam, the ring camera, and the refrigerator in there, they are monitoring too.

33 posted on 04/07/2023 8:08:21 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: 21twelve

A few years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere. She had her cell phone with her but wasn’t talking on it. During the drive, I happened to mention that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they look. I hadn’t said anything at all about Adirondack chairs for years, and probably hadn’t even thought of them. Within the hour, we were getting email ads for, you guessed it, Adirondack chairs, and we kept getting ads on the phone and on our home computer for months.

I know damned well that phones listen all the time, and so do all sorts of “smart” appliances. If they ever come to get me for wrongthink, there’ll be plenty of evidence.

We still don’t own an Adirondack chair.


34 posted on 04/07/2023 8:09:39 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: bitt

bump


35 posted on 04/07/2023 8:10:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: hecticskeptic
It’s going to be fun to try to figure out how to decouple and remove oneself from all that crap.

Almost impossible.

36 posted on 04/07/2023 8:11:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: bitt

A message from the boss:

04/07/23 | Jim Robinson

Wouldn’t it be great if we could complete this FReepathon in under 60 days? Please get your donations in early and let’s get ‘er done! Thank you very much! Your support is greatly appreciated! God bless you.


37 posted on 04/07/2023 8:14:10 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: 21twelve

That’s happened to me before also. Just talking about something and BINGO! there’s an ad for it.


38 posted on 04/07/2023 8:14:18 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: bitt
"Suspect you have a snoop in your life? Use these steps to catch them spying on your texts."

Wow...they know my wife?

39 posted on 04/07/2023 8:16:51 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: BipolarBob
You may've seen this FR thread from yesterday...

"Sting Now Paid $5,000 a Day for Diddy’s Police Sample "

40 posted on 04/07/2023 8:24:00 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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