I’ll believe it when I see it.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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It will go to a 3rd party like meta first and then not be stored at google. That way google can’t turn that info over to the police
And I’ll believe it when I see executives be punished personally for lying. If they are lying. Which hopefully they aren’t.
And since there's no way for me to "see it", I don't believe it.
I doubt it too
Do you have a repository full of meme image you can embed in Lemmy?
yeah, i have one
I actually use timeline. Does this mean it will no longer work on a browser?
From your desktop browser? Probably. You'll still be able to use timeline from your phone though since the data is still being stored locally
I thought the same thing, will be interesting to see if that can be done.
I'm not buying it.
That means that you're the product
What have google ever done to not trust them?
It's believable. If 25% of the warrants they receive are for location data, there is a shed load of money to be saved by simply not storing it.
Probably simple math, whether or not the stored location data is more valuable than the cost of legal compliance.
When big tech says they no longer need something, it means they have something even better. When they say they give you options, they mean dark patterns. Anytime you click 'Decline' it might as well be 'Accept all'. Rapist mentality of big corpos.
Maybe they don’t store it anymore, they just send it straight to the feds
With the prism project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) along with things like 641A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ), G doesn't need to send anything. The nsa is already swallowing it whole.
Constitutional rights? You don’t need those
Rights? You don't need those
Rare W for google if true. Will lool for sources.
Will the old data be removed from the Google servers?
Curious on the implementation. For example apps like signal and WhatsApp require you to either move or lose your data when you get a new phone. This will have to be the way Google implements or they are storing it somewhere on their servers.
The aren’t storing it actively in something you can search at all times, but it’ll be in the “backups” and “restore” pieces still
Personally, I use GPSLogger from FDroid on a 15 minute ping interval and then load the files into Location Map Viewer (also FDroid) for my own location tracking. Disabled Google awhile ago.
I back the files up to a home NAS.
Just curious, why do you feel the need to track your own movements?
If you have ever lost something and had to retrace your steps it helps but I guess it's not super important or relatable for most people
With that measure in place, what likelihood do you think Google still knows your location?
100%
Rare good guy Google?
I don't think people here realize that not holding on to is different from no longer processing the data for their own means... There's no doubt in my mind that Google just simply has no need to keep the old data around anymore once other processing like for ML models and ad targeting are completed