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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by endless1234 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:21PM (#28557011)
If so, why believe "don't save location history" would mean anything either?
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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by sodality2 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:24PM (#28557852)
Difference being "don't save" would mean not being ingested at all; if it is sent to google, a stink could be made (perhaps by sniffing netreqs, looking at GPS requests, etc). Once it's in Google, us peons would have no way to verify any claim.
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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by goodpoint on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:39PM (#28558705)
No. "don't save" does not mean "don't send to google".

All geolocation based on GSM cells and wifi sends your location continuously.

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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by spoonjim on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:40PM (#28559688)
How can it be not ingested at all? If Google is giving me turn by turn directions it needs to know where I am.
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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by sodality2 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:34PM (#28560595)
Google maps vs tracking location at all times, though.
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