Re:Google Trusted Contacts
by kerneis on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @12:56AM
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> If someone has access to your Google Account, they can easily activate the find my phone feature and see exactly where you are without your knowledge.
When your phone is located using the "Find my phone" feature, it pops up a notification on the phone (this phone has been located). Of course, if they had physical access to your phone in the past, they may have blocked this notification, but it is provided by Google Play Services, so that requires to block a wide range of notifications (eg. all "app update available" notifications iirc).
On the other hand, they may access your location history, if you enabled that, and see where you went in the (possibly very recent) past without any notification.
Re:Google Trusted Contacts
by cptskippy on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:55AM
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Interesting, I hadn't noticed that before. If you go to use the feature it also asks you to re-authenticate so the person would have to know your password as well.
When your phone is located using the "Find my phone" feature, it pops up a notification on the phone (this phone has been located). Of course, if they had physical access to your phone in the past, they may have blocked this notification, but it is provided by Google Play Services, so that requires to block a wide range of notifications (eg. all "app update available" notifications iirc).
On the other hand, they may access your location history, if you enabled that, and see where you went in the (possibly very recent) past without any notification.