Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Privacy watchers and politicians say so, and they're calling the two tech titans to the mat to explain themselves. It should come as no surprise that location-based ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

If you later choose a cloud backup for your location history, it will be encrypted end-to-end so no one, not even Google, can access it without your involvement. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

Google has settled for $93 million with California, resolving allegations that the company used location data without informed consent, violating the state’s consumer protection laws. The settlement ...

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But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...

Google is making some big changes to Maps that will affect anyone who uses the app to plan trips, get directions, and access previous destinations. In a recent help page update, the company revealed ...