Google Map History: Now the government will not know your location, this change is happening in google Map
Law enforcement agencies around the world are using geofence warrants extensively. For this reason, there was pressure on google to make changes in Maps location access...
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Tech giant google is going to make a big change regarding the privacy of its users. For this, an update of Google's Maps service has been introduced, which will increase your privacy, and after that governments will not be able to access your location.
Efforts to increase user privacy
Google has given information about this update in a recent announcement. According to google, after this update of Maps service, the location history of google Maps will become virtually unavailable to authorities i.e. law enforcement agencies like police, etc. This update of google is being seen as an effort to curb the interference of law enforcement agencies and increase the privacy of users.
Now only 3 months of data will be stored
The location history of google Maps is known as Timeline. Currently, it is stored on the cloud. google has changed its policies regarding this. After the change, users will get the facility to store their location history i.e. timeline in the device itself instead of storing it on the cloud. Along with this, google is also making changes in its data retention policy. Under this, the period of data retention is being reduced. After the change, google Maps data will be stored only for three months.
Ability to delete data for selected locations
Apart from these, another major change in Google's Maps service is the facility to delete selected data. Now google will also give its users the facility to delete the history related to a particular location. google is already providing the facility to enable location. Now users will be able to completely control the location service even after keeping it on. It will depend on the user to what extent he wants to store his data.
Updates will start coming in the new year
This update of google will soon become available for Android and iOS users. This map update of google is expected to be launched next year. Due to the increasing misuse of geofence warrants, such a change has been demanded for a long time. Privacy activists were continuously demanding that authorities around the world are disturbing people's privacy through geofence warrants. google has finally implemented this.