Thursday, March 28

Tag: google location track

Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!
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Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

We realize that sometimes Android phones track our location to help us book an Uber or provide a better route on maps. But when we don't require GPS we turn location sharing off and think now we're off the grid! Well! That's where you're wrong! Google recently admitted that it is tracking its users even when they turn "location services" off. Or hey! even when they are not using any SIM Card. Can you believe that? Well, that's how they do it. How do they do it! Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones are collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers, even when we disable the location services. The data hence collected, is sent back to the Google in an encrypted form. With this data, Google has access to all their users' location movements, place where they've been at, w...