{"id":36621,"date":"2018-08-14T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36621"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:46:23","slug":"google-is-constantly-tracking-even-if-you-turn-off-device-location-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36621","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Constantly Tracking, Even If You Turn Off Device ‘Location History’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Is Constantly Tracking, Even If You Turn Off Device ‘Location History’<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Google is actually tracking you even when you switch your device settings to Location History “off”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As journalist Mark Ames comments in response<\/a> to a new\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0<\/em>story exposing Google’s ability to track people at all times even when they explicitly tell Google not to via iPhone and Android settings, “The Pentagon invented the internet to be the perfect global surveillance\/counterinsurgency machine. Surveillance is baked into the internet’s DNA.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In but the latest in a continuing saga\u00a0of\u00a0big tech tracking and surveillance stories which should serve to convince us all we are\u00a0living in the beginning phases of a\u00a0Minority Report\u00a0<\/i>style tracking and pansophical “pre-crime” system, it’s now confirmed that the world’s most powerful tech company and search tool\u00a0will always find a way to keep your location data<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0sought the help of Princeton researchers to prove that while Google is clear and upfront about giving App users the ability to turn off or “pause” Location History on their devices, there are other hidden means through which it retains the data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the AP<\/em> report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you\u2019ve been. Google\u2019s\u00a0support page on the subject<\/a>\u00a0states: \u201cYou can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.\u201d<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically\u00a0store time-stamped location data<\/a>\u00a0without asking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app. Automatic daily weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where you are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Google Is Constantly Tracking, Even If You Turn Off Device ‘Location History’ Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Google is actually tracking you even when you switch your device settings to Location History “off”. As journalist Mark Ames comments in response to a new\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0story exposing Google’s ability to track people at all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,1339,21203,21204,5570,620,765,1197,4318],"class_list":["post-36621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-location-history","tag-mark-ames","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-pentagon","tag-surveillance","tag-tracking","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36622,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions\/36622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}