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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by callmeal on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:16PM (#19815218)
>So in order to make Google share your location with others, you have to give them permission to store your location.

Sure. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is, why is google insisting on storing all the locations that I am not sharing?

I only want to share this current location. So yes, that will have to be stored somewhere. But for the love of everything I don't see why sharing my current location requires saving all my future locations.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by JetSpiegel on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:13AM (#19818597)
Because otherwise Waze doesn't work.

You can also imagine the other sub-rosa reasons for this.

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