The “technical problem” of Google Maps that could have eliminated this information unrecoverable

The maps have changed a lot compared to 50 years ago, they are no longer physical, but are digital and if we had to point out one as the referent or the most used in the world, we could only mention Google Maps.

This map is much more than a simple representation of an area or territory, given that It offers information about all kinds about businesses and stores, arrival times, the ways in which you can reach a place and many other tools that serve users in their day to day.

And one of these differential aspects is that Maps has stored all the chronology of your trips that have been registered in the app, that is, you can see the paths and directions that you have taken over the years. However, the company has just announced that They have eliminated the chronology data of some users of this servicethat They will not be able to recover them unless they have a cloud backup with which to load them again.

A “technical problem” has resulted in the elimination of the chronology data of a part of its users, that is, the history of locations that allows you to remember the places where it has been and the routes that have been made.

This fact has been confirmed by the company itself this weekend, both through a statement sent to The Verge and in individual communications via ’email’ with affected users, as stated in forums such as Reddit.

In this statement, Google states that “Almost all users with chronology encrypted copies can restore their data “something that, however, will not be able to do those who “do not have them activated”, since they will not be able to recover their data.

Chronology It is a Google Maps feature that is offered deactivated by default. Those who activate it can choose to save an encrypted backup (protected with end -to -end encrypted) from their device on their Google account.

But also on its own device, a change that Google introduced last year, although this leaves without access to this feature from the web and does not act the copy in the cloud.