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November 21, 2017 04:24 pm GMT
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Nope, your Android phone's not secretly tracking your location when you tell it not to
Google, your friendly Internet tech giant that totally doesn't know everything about you, has reportedly been secretly tracking Android users' locations even when they've opted out of location service tracking.
Quartz first discovered the suspect "location" collection on several Android devices and Google reportedly confirmed to the website it was only doing so to "further improve the speed and performance of message delivery." Google says it will discontinue the practice by the end of this month.
Mashable reached out to Google for clarification on this seemingly alarming tracking, and it turns out it's not actually collecting any location-based data after all. Read more...
More about Google, Android, Privacy, Security, and Location TrackingOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/5Q2A2jUKtDc/
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