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The Google tracking feature you didnt know youd switched on

Googles Your Timeline can paint a very accurate picture of your daily life. If youve got it switched on, it stores every step you take and everywhere you go. The technology behind this is impressive, but the privacy and security implications are, for some, quite terrifying. To discover what Google Timeline knows about me, I removed my tinfoil hat and opted to let it store my location history again. Google will store this data for years, as you can see in my screenshot below.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/10/03/the-google-tracking-feature-you-didnt-know-youd-switched-on/

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