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Google sued over deceptive location tracking

26

Jan

2022

Four Attorneys General (AG) from the District of Columbia and the states of Indiana, Texas, and Washington have filed separate lawsuits agains Google for allegedly misleading its users into believing that they are no longer tracking their location when they deliberately pause the “Location History” setting on mobile devices. All four AG’s allege that users […]

Apple made a smart change in iOS 8 that will help stop advertisers from tracking you

09

Jun

2014

If it seems like every company out there these days is trying to track your web browsing, mobile usage and actual physical location history, it’s probably because they are. Usage history, location history and other related data are hugely important to advertisers, which try to build profiles of users in order to serve better targeted ads. […]

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How to manage your location data with Google

13

Aug

2013

Early this August, Google retired Latitude, a feature of Google Maps that allowed users to track and share their location with their friends.Latitude also kept a record of a user’s location history, giving them a detailed breakdown of where they spend their time and how much time they spend in each location.Google has announced that […]

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