{"id":238686,"date":"2017-11-22T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=238686"},"modified":"2017-11-22T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:37:27","slug":"google-collected-location-data-when-android-location-services-were-switched-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/238686-google-collected-location-data-when-android-location-services-were-switched-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Google collected location data when Android location services were switched off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has collected location-identifying information from Android smartphones over the past 11 months even when location services were switched off, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1131515\/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quartz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Android phones sent the identifier of the cellular tower they were connected to, or cell ID, to Google&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Google confirmed that cell IDs were included in the data sent back to its system that manages push notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Google was experimenting with using cell ID codes to increase the speed of message delivery earlier this year, but it never used the data in its network sync system.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the data was discarded and no cell ID information was stored.<\/p>\n<p>It promised to stop sending cell tower information from Android phones outside of usual location services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/236524-android-devs-in-south-africa-can-now-sell-their-apps-on-google-play.html\">Android devs in South Africa can now sell their apps on Google Play<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has collected location-identifying information from Android smartphones over the past 11 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[397,167],"class_list":["post-238686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238764,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238686\/revisions\/238764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}