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Re:Want to freak yourself out? by paulddraper on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:00PM (#16704210)
> Google stores your location (if you have it turned on) every time you turn on your phone, and you can see a timeline from the first day you started using Google on your phone

This turned out to be useful when I couldn't find my new $600 phone (and battery was dead).

Turns out it has been in a park overnight after slipping out while I was playing soccer with the kids.

Unfortunately, I had location off on an earlier phone, and I never did find that one.

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Re:Want to freak yourself out? by Jyaif on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:42AM (#16704766)
Location history has been super useful to me on several occasions:

-Find my way back to a cabin in the woods where I had been earlier (I had the address, bur google maps couldnt find it).

-Find that restaurant I went with some friends a week ago

-Verify if my credit card was compromised, or if I actually had spent 30€ mysef that night

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Re:Want to freak yourself out? by vokep on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:33PM (#16718086)
Right, these are nice but you could also, yknow, just track it yourself...which is what is happening actually, but then you're giving it to google
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Re:Want to freak yourself out? by paulddraper on Saturday March 31, 2018 @12:44PM (#16723991)
Track it myself...where?
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