Google Maps Timeline History

My opinion only... and not that I have anything to hide. But I find it troublesome that place is like Google and such track, monitor and saves data your whereabouts, your current location, what you have searched on the internet, as far as a smartphone all these apps needing all these permissions everything from your contact list, to your microphone. All under the misconception of of convenience. I have most of that stuff turned off. And check my settings periodically. To see that they have not been changed. And who knows what's to say that they still aren't somehow saving all this information. Not fear mongering what makes you wonder what is the real reason for it and whether or not Google is in cahoots with the government tracking your every move. And what for ?Supposably even the new TVs have cameras in them now. LOL.... I wonder if the toilet paper we use nowadays might not have microscopic microchips that we are are implanting in ourselves every time we Wipe

 

If I ever get around to putting my CDL to use, that is the reason. I know what the pay is like starting out but I'd do it for 2-3 years just to see all of Can/US.

 

I've not messed with it but I'm using iPhone. I can't determine what triggers a location save. It would be nice if you could "animate" your route history by turning on the "dots" on a map every 1/4 second, in the order they occurred

 

Most all cell phones "track and push" location and speed history to one degree or another from ALL users, regardless of carrier. How do you think modern traffic status updates (across all major routes) are created? How do you think 911 calls are tracked and the location sent to responding units? How do you think autonomous technology and GPS routing engines determines optimal routing in real-time?

It's not going away. And to the extent you can, you can turn off some levels of push updates. All you can do is use a "dumb phone", but even they are not completely "off the grid"

Haven't you watched NCIS and Criminal Minds?

 

I can name that interstate in four dots.....

 

You are on the internet currently, if the g men want to know, they already know. You would have to virtually disappear to become untrackable.

Credit cards, debit cards, street cameras, Cell pings, guard shacks, truck stops. Trust me, they know where you are if you have your location on or not.


Here's a test I did a while ago on my android. Drive from Reading, PA to Newark, Nj. I turned my location off on my phone before leaving the yard in PA, I went and dropped my delivery, turned and was headed back to Reading. Now my location has been off on my phone, I got to Hellertown on 78, pulled off to check traffic at 78/100. Well I turned my location on and the phone repositioned the blue dot on Google maps from the ramp on 78 all the way back to the customers lot in Newark.

Tell me again that I have complete control. Because my phone never knew where I dropped.

 

Holy crap, I never knew about this. I no like.

 

"They" know where you are and W.H.O. you are.....no gettin around it these days.