{"id":271925,"date":"2018-08-14T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=271925"},"modified":"2018-08-14T16:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:38:20","slug":"we-told-users-we-track-them-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/271925-we-told-users-we-track-them-google.html","title":{"rendered":"We told users we track them – Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google tracks the location of your Android phone even when you tell it not to, the AP reported<\/a><\/strong>. Google stated, however, that this is made clear to users.<\/p>\n

AP published its report after conducting an investigation into the matter, which it asked Princeton university researchers to confirm.<\/p>\n

Google states on its support pages<\/a><\/strong> that you can turn off Location History to prevent the company from storing the places you have been, but AP said this is not true.<\/p>\n

Disabling Location History on your devices, however, stops Google from tracking your movements for the purposes of creating a timeline and map of your travels.<\/p>\n

A separate feature, called “Web and App Activity,” will continue to store time-stamped location information when you use certain Google apps or browse the web.<\/p>\n

It is possible to delete this data, though. Users must remove their web and app location history one point at a time – or delete all of their stored history with Google.<\/p>\n

Google has also disputed that there is anything unclear in the way it handles its location history settings on Android.<\/p>\n

In a statement to AP, it confirmed there are several ways that Google may use location data – including: Location History, Web and App Activity, and through device-level location services.<\/p>\n

“We provide clear descriptions of these tools, and robust controls so people can turn them on or off, and delete their histories at any time,” said Google.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0Google Maps can now share your battery life<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google tracks the location of your Android phone even when you tell it not to, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,2570,9854],"class_list":["post-271925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-location-data","tag-location-based-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271925"}],"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=271925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271953,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271925\/revisions\/271953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}