{"id":373938,"date":"2018-08-18T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-admits-it-tracks-users-when-location-history-is-turned-off\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:25:26","slug":"google-admits-it-tracks-users-when-location-history-is-turned-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-admits-it-tracks-users-when-location-history-is-turned-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Google admits it tracks users when location history is turned off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google has confirmed that it still tracks users even after they turn off the \u201cLocation History\u201d setting on their device. It comes just one day after the practice was revealed by an AP investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The clarification is mentioned on a Location History help page, which Google changed on Thursday. The once erroneous wording has now been changed to say: <em>\u201cThis setting does not affect other location services on your device\u201d<\/em> and acknowledges that <em>\u201csome location data may be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and Maps.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The page previously only stated that <em>\u201cwith Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The change comes even though a Google spokesperson maintained on Wednesday that the company had provided <em>\u201cclear descriptions\u201d<\/em> of all of Google\u2019s tools which may record users\u2019 locations.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just one day after AP revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/435855-google-tracking-location-permission\/\">report<\/a> that Google did indeed still track users when the Location History function was turned off. The news agency looked into the matter after K. Shankari, a graduate researcher at the University of California Berkeley blogged about how her Android device had prompted her to rate a recent shopping trip to Kohl\u2019s despite her location history function being disabled. AP\u2019s findings were later confirmed by computer-science researchers at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>While it is possible to completely disable location tracking, doing so is far more complicated than Google initially let on: users have to delete stored location markers by hand, with each one needing to be selected and deleted individually, unless you want to delete all of your stored activity at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/yes-the-big-g-is-following-you-google-admits-it-tracks-users-when-location-history-is-turned-off.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that it still tracks users even after they turn off the \u201cLocation History\u201d setting on their device. It comes just one day after the practice was revealed by an AP investigation. The clarification is mentioned on a Location History help page, which Google changed on Thursday. The once erroneous wording has now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}