Google knows where are you! The search engine giant records all your movements fifty-fifty if yous accept turned off the location tracker.
An Associated Press investigation study establish out that the final result could touching on to a greater extent than than 2 billion people who operate Google maps or Google search conduct or indirectly.
According to the study, Google maps "stores a snapshot of where yous are," an automatic daily weather condition updates rails a location of your Android device, as well as fifty-fifty a pocket-size random search on Google searches gets to know virtually your exact latitude as well as longitude.
fifty-fifty random Google searches that yous brand volition manus over information to the tech giant.
The study has been verified yesteryear the Computer scientific discipline researchers at Princeton University afterward AP's requests.
However, inwards answer to the allegations, Google has issued a description of tools as well as suggestions on how to plough off the location tracker as well as delete the location history.
Google says: “You tin plough off Location History at whatsoever time. With Location History off, the places yous instruct are no longer stored.”
Google's "Web as well as App Activity," which is turned on yesteryear default, allow the companionship rails your location.
To plough it off, yous accept to precisely instruct to Activity Controls. Turn off both Web & App Activity as well as Location History.
For Android device follow these steps:
1) Go to settings.
Next click on Google, as well as and thence Google Account
There yous volition discovery a tab "data & personalisation" within it "web & app Activity"
Turn off "Web & App Activity"
For iPhones, iPads, as well as computers:
Sign into your Google account, click on the action controls page.
There yous volition discovery "the spider web & app Activity" tab
Turn off the "Web as well as App Activity"
