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floofloof ( floofloof@lemmy.ca )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police

www.businessinsider.com

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Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police

www.businessinsider.com

floofloof ( floofloof@lemmy.ca )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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Google is making some changes in Google Maps that will increase user privacy.
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      I doubt it too

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      Do you have a repository full of meme image you can embed in Lemmy?

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    Just like that? No catch?

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      State to state, no papers?

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    When big tech says they no longer need something, it means they have something even better. When they say they give you options, they mean dark patterns. Anytime you click ‘Decline’ it might as well be ‘Accept all’. Rapist mentality of big corpos.

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    I’m not buying it.

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    Maybe they don’t store it anymore, they just send it straight to the feds

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    I actually use timeline. Does this mean it will no longer work on a browser?

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      From your desktop browser? Probably. You’ll still be able to use timeline from your phone though since the data is still being stored locally

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      I thought the same thing, will be interesting to see if that can be done.

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    Will the old data be removed from the Google servers?

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    Rare W for google if true. Will lool for sources.

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    Curious on the implementation. For example apps like signal and WhatsApp require you to either move or lose your data when you get a new phone. This will have to be the way Google implements or they are storing it somewhere on their servers.

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    Rare good guy Google?

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    I don’t think people here realize that not holding on to is different from no longer processing the data for their own means… There’s no doubt in my mind that Google just simply has no need to keep the old data around anymore once other processing like for ML models and ad targeting are completed

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