Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Google Turns Every Phone Running Google Maps Into C****av***s Spyware
Daniel Greenfield ~ April 3, 2020
We always knew that the big dot com monopolies were stockpiling massive amounts of data on their users.

And there was no telling how some of that data was being used. One of the hot theories involved phones eavesdropping on users and generating keywords from conversations to serve ads.

Now we’re seeing a sample of how coordination between governments and Google, the scariest dot com of them all, can work to create a China-like system.

Google is launching a tool that will publicly track people’s movements amid the c****av***s p******c, allowing health officials to check whether their communities are abiding by social-distancing measures.

The California-based tech giant says it will publish and regularly update the “community mobility reports,” which are broken down by location and display the change in visits to public places such as grocery stores and parks. The tool, announced by the company late Thursday, uses “aggregated, anonymized sets of data” that Google has collected on users, including through Google Maps.

Just in case you didn’t know, any Android phones, any phone containing Google apps, especially Google Maps, is spying on you.

The Community Mobility Reports provide actionable information. They are, for the moment, not individualized, but they make use of your individual information to monitor your community and provide data that will be used to push for actions and crackdowns.

As global communities respond to C****-**, we’ve heard from public health officials that the same type of aggregated, anonymized insights we use in products such as Google Maps could be helpful as they make critical decisions to combat C****-**. Government officials in other words.

Google notes that it’s drawing data from users who have made their location history accessible, and while turning that off may be a start move, there’s no reason to think that Google isn’t drawing data regardless, and making use of it, even if you turn off both data and WiFi.

This is another reminder of the need to break up Google before it gets too blatantly evil.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

This is why I like my dumbphone.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Me too.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

My dumbphone's bad enough!

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are potentially the most evil businesses on the planet.

I was gifted a free IPhone and free service. Still hardly ever use it. I have a land line. If you want me, call me at home. If I don't get your call, my phone records all incoming phone numbers and I can call you back. And these people on cell phones aren't all that good about calling back, so we're even.

I do use email whenever possible.

As for tracking. I use my IPhone for Bus Tracker almost exclusively. And then turn the phone completely off. But when in the local forest preserves, I turn on a tracking app that shows where I went. Personal interest. Then I turn off the phone again. So, tracking me is minimal.

Big Kahuna

That is why I love my Ovommitphone. It, like ovommit, is too stupid to do anything but exist. It takes up time and space, gets the day and time wrong on a consistent basis, is out of service at least 80% of the time, is always facing Mecca and bowing and has asked me to be sent to the islamic terrorists in Iran for cash with 50% of the cash going to the Islamic extremists and 50% going to mooch and Hussein's new $30 million dollar house on the rising shoreline of Martha's Vineyard. That is a great phone. I'm waiting for my new t***ssexual phone put out by mooch ovommit called, Moochaphone. It will have both male and female parts.

DaWg44

I know less than nothing about phones, but seems like to me I read somewhere that they can be tracked even if turned off. Maybe someone on here can answer that question. We live in an area where we rarely have 2 bars of connection even if we turn on the little black box.

Lonewolf

As long as the battery is in it will track you I traveled around Europe and when in returned Google showed me a map of every place I went.
And of course every call you make is captured

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

And that should be illegal. We are just beginning on the path to total control by people we wouldn't give the time of day to.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

My phone just lays asleep in its cradle and doesn't do a damned thing until I pick it up and talk to it or someone else wakes it up so it can talk to me. My phone does everything I ask of it. When I put it back in its cradle, it goes back to sleep until the next wake up call. Kinda like my gun, it don't shoot no bullets 'less I pull its trigger.