Posted on 08/22/2014 9:03:17 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location back to a central database? That’s tomorrow. Today, Google is tracking wherever your smartphone goes, and putting a neat red dot on a map to mark the occasion.
You can find that map here. All you need to do is log in with the same account you use on your phone, and the record of everywhere you’ve been for the last day to month will erupt across your screen like chicken pox.
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go to Google maps, hit services>location>location reporting, and set it to off.
You are no longer being tracked.
Well, I wouldn’t know anything about that but I notice you stopped in for a toddy at Flanagan’s on your way home from the office last night. And you haven’t been to the gym in more than a week.
For me, it has zero, for any month or year.
“You have no location history”
That’s what they want you to think.
Does that mean you aren’t anywhere?
I logged in and there’s no history, so I must have turned off the right setting in my security and privacy when I originally configured that phone.
When I retired in January, I took my cell phone out back, and took care of it with my Ruger Redhawk 44 Mag! It was fun!
FYI you are still tracked, just not as accurately.
I use waze navigation app on my iphone and I can login to their site and it shows me my recent driving routes on a map.
As soon as I got my latest cell phone, that does run on the Android OS, I deleted all Google apps from it. IF - seldom - I want to use it for Internet access, I use the Firefox app.
Oh it’s doing it. People need to realize that every mobile phone location is tracked in the US. They don’t need GPS, just tower locations.
Yes they can. The difference is that Google is in the open about this. If you use any mobile device that connects to a network it can and is being tracked.
Bfl
you can get a gps blocker for 20 bucks.
I have an iPhone. I’m also signed up on youtube (alias) and my provide uses gmail. I went to the sight and there is no tracking information.
I guess google doesn’t have my phone #.
They like me.
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