To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google

Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google by cbr on Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:07PM (#16614341)

The email reminders I get look like:

Subject: You are using Google Location Sharing to share your real-time location.

Hi Jeff,

To protect your privacy, we would like to remind you that you are sharing your real-time location using Google Location Sharing with [wife] and [close friend and housemate].

If you didn't enable this or want to stop sharing your location at any time, please go to your Google Location Sharing settings.

Thanks,

Google Location Sharing Team

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Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google by ocdtrekkie on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:15PM (#16614780)

Sounds like this is a reminder that you're sharing your location history. People who just have it on (which means, "just" sharing with Google), do not get these notices.

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Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google by megy on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:22PM (#16614825)

This isn't the same thing at all.

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Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google by cbr on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:18AM (#16616165)

But it may be what the grandparent recalls receiving

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