Google Maps tracks internet history

[Cobra Jet]

Did anyone else know that Google Maps also tracks your internet history?

Well if you didn’t know, see below highlights and article below:

Info and how to remove:
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7028918

Sponsored

 

[Timeless]

Makes sense. Hopefully Waze does not.

 

[Smokey613]

Google tracks everything you do, but then so do most programs today. Just part of “doing business” with technology.

 

[el-guapin]

Google tracks everything you do, but then so do most programs today. Just part of “doing business” with technology.

This!.. Just cant fully escape it.

 

[bomlodr]

This!.. Just cant fully escape it.

Sure you can. You just need to put a proxy or avatar of you between your actual identity and the online tracker folks. Along those lines, I always use a VPN and mine is always on, both on my phone and my personal computer. None of my apps are allowed on the web without going through it. If you're paranoid gauge is currently at "hiding behind the bushes with a foil helmet on", Librem will soon be delivering a phone that is designed around security with a switch that separates the baseband (phone part (modem) of your smart phone) from the CPU.

 

[Commbubba19]

anyone who believes their consumer grade electronics are secure or private is fooling themselves.

 

[Smokey613]

Sure you can. You just need to put a proxy or avatar of you between your actual identity and the online tracker folks. Along those lines, I always use a VPN and mine is always on, both on my phone and my personal computer. None of my apps are allowed on the web without going through it. If you're paranoid gauge is currently at "hiding behind the bushes with a foil helmet on", Librem will soon be delivering a phone that is designed around security with a switch that separates the baseband (phone part (modem) of your smart phone) from the CPU.

This is all good provided you trust your VPN provider.

 

[95CobraR]

anyone who believes their consumer grade electronics are secure or private is fooling themselves.

I never thought my posts were private on Google or on this site.

 

[Blue Moon]

I just assume anything on line is not private, and share accordingly. If you want to keep it private, don't put it online.

 

[Litenin75]

Makes sense. Hopefully Waze does not.

Ummmm...Google bought Waze like 6 years ago. Good luck with that.

 

[Timeless]

Ummmm...Google bought Waze like 6 years ago. Good luck with that.

Whoops...forgot

 

[Cobra Jet]

Sure you can. You just need to put a proxy or avatar of you between your actual identity and the online tracker folks. Along those lines, I always use a VPN and mine is always on, both on my phone and my personal computer. None of my apps are allowed on the web without going through it. If you're paranoid gauge is currently at "hiding behind the bushes with a foil helmet on", Librem will soon be delivering a phone that is designed around security with a switch that separates the baseband (phone part (modem) of your smart phone) from the CPU.

What VPN service provider are you using?

 

[bomlodr]

This is all good provided you trust your VPN provider.

True story! He who controls the entry/exit routers, controls the internet. Pick a VPN provider with a multitude of exit nodes in many differrent countries, a non-storage policy, and/or one that is outside the reach of our government. If you want to disappear completely, VPN + TOR.

What VPN service provider are you using?

I use PIA vpn. I have it on all my mobile devices as well as my laptops at home. No internet access is allowed from any device without the VPN being active.

 

[ugstang17]

If you want to keep it private...pen a letter. And then it still may be violated.

Sponsored