This may be required by law or will be used to confirm your identity if you ever need to speak to customer support Personal data you used to create your account.
Most of them will request some or all of the following information: You may still have to sacrifice some form of data in order to use their services. However, that means that their functionality will be limited and the directions might not be as accurate. The good news are that there are navigation apps that can be used offline and don’t track your location. This type of data is extremely valuable to to Google, so it’s no surprise that they kept a few secrets to keep doing what they do best. This data is then combined with your existing user profile and used to serve you targeted ads. (Click on ‘Delete activity by’ and choose ‘All time’ from the drop down menu.) You can find and manually delete these records by going to the My Activity page. However, if you don’t turn off another feature called Web & App activity, which is hidden in your settings, your location can still be tracked.Įvery time you open Google Maps, search for something via Google Search, or just use any other Google app, they will send timestamps back to Google and will create an accurate image of where you’ve been. Turning off your location data only stops Google from creating a timeline of where you’ve been throughout the day.
They had told their users that they have full control of their location history and can ‘edit, delete or turn it off at any time.’ But Google forgot to mention that they still use other means to track users’ locations.
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