It’s possible that Google is tracking your movements without you realizing you’ve signed up for it. The tracker highlights your moves in the real world to millions of users – but it can be turned off, if you know how.
All of this is linked to a system called Google’s Location History. It’s an account-wide service that records your movements using your smartphone. For this to work, you’ll need to sign in to a Google account with Location History and Location Reporting turned on.
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It’s designed to analyze the user: Google can provide better service if it knows where you’ve been. This means you can get more detailed advice on your daily commute, recommendations based on other places you’ve visited, and more relevant ads.
But it’s fair to say that many of us don’t want Google to keep a continuous record of our movements. There are big privacy risks when it comes to storing details of all the places you’ve been. This privacy change is why Google Location History is turned off by default and only turned on with your permission. But it’s common for users to accidentally turn on Google Location History through Google Maps.
How to Check Google Location History
There are a few different ways to check your Google Location History.
The quickest and easiest is just to follow this link to the timeline of Google Maps:
This will show you exactly where you were on a given day. And it can even track your methods of travel, as well as the times you’ve been to specific locations.
If you’re using the Google Maps app, go to the menu and select Your timeline. You might find the results shocking if Google’s Location History has been turned on for several years without realizing it. Suddenly finding out that Google is hosting an extremely detailed map, tracking years of your movements in the real world can be very daunting.
How to disable Google’s Location History
You can disable Google Location History at any time. clicking here.
However, to actually stop Google from tracking you, you’ll also need to turn off Web and Activity Tracking. You can see your tracked location markers on here:
Unfortunately, these location markers are mixed in with a lot of other information, so it’s hard to find (and delete) them.
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