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Comment by nojito

It’s even worse than the headline implies.

You couldn’t prevent location tracking unless you disabled the numerous switches in settings and turned off WiFi as well.

The real damning allegation is that location data collected from google maps/apps and non-google apps was siphoned to all other google products through something that is redacted in the court docs.

>"So there is no way to give a third party app your location and not Google? That doesn't sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT

Additionally this process was deemed so critical to Google’s overall revenues because of something else that was also redacted.

https://www.azag.gov/media/interest/updated-redacted-google-...

parent nojito 5 years ago

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