Not OK, Google - Hackdot

Re:Not OK, Google by 0xmohit on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:54PM (#12645565)

What makes you think that deleting location history actually deletes the history? Reminds one of the group of students called Europe v. Facebook [0]:

  Schrems described the file obtained through a legal request as
  a 500MB PDF including data the user thought they had
  deleted. The one sent through a regular Facebook request was a
  150MB HTML file and included video (the PDF did not) but did
  not have the deleted data.

[0] https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2114059/facebook-file

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Re:Not OK, Google by problems on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:39PM (#12645969)

Definitely, and this is why it needs to be a global option to disable location history - just sending it to them in the first place is the problem!

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Re:Not OK, Google by frankydp on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:38PM (#12647627)

Can't you simply disable the GPS radio?

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Re:Not OK, Google by problems on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:14PM (#12649967)

I still want maps, I just don't want my every move logged or sent to Google.

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