Hi all,
I walked into a local restaurant/bar the other lunchtime. My phone was in my pocket the whole time. I didnt use Google to get there or anything like that. Yet when I next looked at my phone, Google was asking me to write a review on the place I'd just been in. I had only been in there 30 seconds for them to tell me they were not yet open.
I'm thinking, what the hell!
How cant I turn this invasion of my privacy off? As far as I am aware, I turn off anything like this. I dont have apps forwarding me notifications, etc. I'm very much a phone is there for calls/texts and useful when I need to look something up.
Thanks,
Mr_Moo
I don't think google is keeping tabs on you man .is this restaurant near the place you live or something ? Because google often asks about a certain place/or ask a review about nearby(google gets your location based on your search results or by GPS when loaction acces is turned on)places that's visible on the google map so that the google maps app can be more helpful for tourists or something .
For eg my friend who lives nearby added his home's location on google maps and later I was asked if this was a florist (because he named his home "flower"). Think it was a coincidence that google asked for a review just when you entered the restaurant.
I don't live anywhere near the place.
Similar happened today. I took a photo near a garden centre and android asked me if I wanted to add it to Google's photos of their review part of the website. Geo tagging is OFF. What is going on?
This is invasion of privacy
Mr_Moo said:
I don't live anywhere near the place.
Similar happened today. I took a photo near a garden centre and android asked me if I wanted to add it to Google's photos of their review part of the website. Geo tagging is OFF. What is going on?
This is invasion of privacy
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Never happend to me twice
In Google maps ->settings ->1)turn Google location modeoff
2)notifications-check off unwanted notifications.
If you use Google my business app then you have turn it off there as well.
Ah, there was loads of options on there! Disabled most, thank you. I'm sure this will alleviate the issue =)
IT DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's going on!?!
Mr_Moo said:
IT DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's going on!?!
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Go to this link and log in to your Google account that's linked to your phone. Unckeck all checkmarks and turn everything on the website off.
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I am looking for this type of APP.
A team of us works in 3rd world countries where street addresses are just not the same as back in North America; that is an understatement.
It would be nice to have an APP where I could add a geo point (if that is what they are called) to a map when I go to a location. I could then add a note about that location and the services, etc found there. My colleagues in another cities could also do the same. However, this would all be on one account so that all geo caches could be available to the whole team. When I add a geo cache to my phone it also adds it to their phones.
At the moment if this is only available on Android then it would work. However, some of the team also have iPhones so we would love something for both of these systems.
Look forward to your opinions and suggestions.
Thanks.
I remember Google Maps and Latitude can offer you this very service, you could checkin and add new locations, I don't know about privacy of these new added locations. so you need to look into it... before making it very public.
Thanks for your reply.
I will try using Google Maps a little more and see what I can fiind.
You mentioned Latitude. Is that an app? I searched for it in the Marketplace but nothing showed up.
Yes, lattitude is an app. maybe you should try different versions of your spelling or adding 'Google' in front of it, I'm not certain but it IS an app.
nosralr said:
You mentioned Latitude. Is that an app? I searched for it in the Marketplace but nothing showed up.
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Google Latitude is part of Google Maps afaik. If you have maps, then it should be there.
From http://www.google.com/mobile/latitude/
Latitude is part of Google Maps for mobile on most phones. See supported phones in the Help Center for details.
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I'm currently experimenting with different map apps. Maybe one of them has what you're looking for.
google maps...latitude...footprints...locations...places...navigation...and now, download area maps...whaaa?
i am so confused about what all these things are? i've used google maps online, and a couple of times on my phone, and i've downloaded city "locations", but how do i use these - or which is better to be used - when travelling?
i'll be all over Europe come next month, and will have a data plan (actually a mobile wifi hotspot device at 1GB a month)...i want to use these gadgets but really can't tell the difference between them all
any advice? what have you used and how do you use it?
n7of9 said:
google maps...latitude...footprints...locations...places...navigation...and now, download area maps...whaaa?
i am so confused about what all these things are? i've used google maps online, and a couple of times on my phone, and i've downloaded city "locations", but how do i use these - or which is better to be used - when travelling?
i'll be all over Europe come next month, and will have a data plan (actually a mobile wifi hotspot device at 1GB a month)...i want to use these gadgets but really can't tell the difference between them all
any advice? what have you used and how do you use it?
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google maps stuff
maps - google maps basically
latitude - allows google and your google contacts to know where you are.
navigation - directions on how to get from one place to another.
HTC location stuff
footprints - puts a marker where u are. i think it requires u to sign in to htc sense to fully utilise it.
htc location - your main gps app. notice there are categories there. u tap on one and places listed will be sorted by how far they are from you in an ascending order.
did that help?
i was using a nokia 5800xm previously and had garmin mobile xt. here in malaysia we have a forum where people upload points of interest and map builders add them in to map builds. when roads get changed or redirected, someone's gonna add them in. i was able to find almost any place in any state with garmin.
unfortunately, these two gmaps and htc's location arent that detailed.
that is helpful, thanks
so 'location' and 'places' is essentially the same thing?
it looks like Location uses purchased Navigation for directions, whereas Places uses free Google Maps?
yes that does clear it up...it looks like all i need is Maps and Places
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that is helpful, thanks
so 'location' and 'places' is essentially the same thing?
it looks like Location uses purchased Navigation for directions, whereas Places uses free Google Maps?
yes that does clear it up...it looks like all i need is Maps and Places
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location and places seem to serve the same purpose. so i just go with location. btw, when u purchased ur phone did u receive a voucher code for location? it should be printed on the location manual.
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location and places seem to serve the same purpose. so i just go with location. btw, when u purchased ur phone did u receive a voucher code for location? it should be printed on the location manual.
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no voucher, nor a location manual
n7of9 said:
no voucher, nor a location manual
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they probably removed it from the bundle for ur locale. anyway, enjoy ur trip and good luck with getting around.
First off, I have never purchased any music, books or movies from the Google Play Store. Nor have I used the store to search for any of these media types. All the media I have on my phone has been taken from "back ups" I have on my computer and placed on phone through USB or Skydrive. I have some very obscure and varied musical, reading and movie tastes. I also don't use Google+ or any Google affiliated messaging, chat or blog services. So I found it very disturbing on my last visit to the Google Play Store, when I decided to check öut the "recommended for you section" and found quite a bit of recommendations that matched the content of my phone. It was uncany. I did some research and found that Google says it's recommendations were based on searches, geographic location and what my"friends" listened to. I am on vacation outside of my geographic location and I purchased my phone while on vacation. My previous phone was a Windows phone so they can't have gotten data from that source, could they? Is my private content being scanned or accessed? Google is hitting too close too the mark on this one. I go out of my way to keep my privacy. Something seems fishy. Anyone else notice this or am I being paranoid?
You're being paranoid.
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App packages
When you enter the Google Play Store on your device, the application packages that exist in your phone (regardless where you got them from) are being used for search results.
Thus by matching the app packages that exist in your device against those that also have the same package name installed in their devices, Google can tell what kind of apps these generalized group of people will download, and make suggestions from there.
But yes, you are being paranoid
The play store takes stock of what's on your phone so it knows what updates you need and to recommend things to you. It does collect other info, all of which you will find in the TOS you obviously didn't read before you created your Google account. I didn't read it either, but I also understand some info is collected for these reasons and to be able to target ads to your usage habits. It's the nature of the beast - connecting to the Internet in any way means you have given up some measure of privacy, whether you like it or not.
You're being paranoid.
My advice: If you want to live off the grid, owning a smartphone is not the best approach....
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divinituss said:
When you enter the Google Play Store on your device, the application packages that exist in your phone (regardless where you got them from) are being used for search results.
Thus by matching the app packages that exist in your device against those that also have the same package name installed in their devices, Google can tell what kind of apps these generalized group of people will download, and make suggestions from there.
But yes, you are being paranoid
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Beat me to it! Hehe
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tbvnz said:
First off, I have never purchased any music, books or movies from the Google Play Store. Nor have I used the store to search for any of these media types. All the media I have on my phone has been taken from "back ups" I have on my computer and placed on phone through USB or Skydrive. I have some very obscure and varied musical, reading and movie tastes. I also don't use Google+ or any Google affiliated messaging, chat or blog services. So I found it very disturbing on my last visit to the Google Play Store, when I decided to check öut the "recommended for you section" and found quite a bit of recommendations that matched the content of my phone. It was uncany. I did some research and found that Google says it's recommendations were based on searches, geographic location and what my"friends" listened to. I am on vacation outside of my geographic location and I purchased my phone while on vacation. My previous phone was a Windows phone so they can't have gotten data from that source, could they? Is my private content being scanned or accessed? Google is hitting too close too the mark on this one. I go out of my way to keep my privacy. Something seems fishy. Anyone else notice this or am I being paranoid?
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If you have an android smartphone and you are using Google Play, you need a gmail account for this, so, Google already has your "identity" and knows who is the owner of that smartphone. When you use google chrome and start a session on it, you are telling Google everything you do on the web, and even if you are not logged in on chrome, or use a different browser, but log into gmail account and use youtube or google for searching on internet Google knows what you look for on internet and what you like to watch. And if you use your phone during vacation outside of your geographic location, Google already knows where you like to go on vacations and you like to on free time, that probably is very related with all the targeted adds that you see on the internet while browsing.
In other words, no one is scanning your private content or accessing on it, YOU are giving all this kind of info to Google and they just use it, maybe for suggest Hotels on vacations or for anything they want because they own it.
My recommendation is take care of your privacy and don't be paranoid if they know what you tell them... :cyclops:
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jsneider23 said:
... connecting to the Internet in any way means you have given up some measure of privacy, whether you like it or not. ...
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It doesn't have to be like this... there are ways for protecting your privacy on the web and everyone should use them instead of just get used to be snooped
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My advice: If you want to live off the grid, owning a smartphone is not the best approach....
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You are right
I don't know about anyone else but I used Google Latitude a LOT. My wife and I tracked each other to know where we were to start dinner, that we landed safely on business trips, etc. So when we were told that it was going away and that we had to use Google+, it just smelled fishy. Why would I want to use TWO map apps one one was working perfectly fine (see friends and traffic all at once)?
Well, now it is clear that Google decided to cash in with Google Maps Coordinate. For the low, low price of $20/person/month, you can have all the functionality of Latitude back again!
I know that Google is a business, but Christ, this is ridiculous. Does Coordinate do ANYTHING that Latitude DIDN'T do already? I can't wait until someone creates a custom app that puts Google+ friends on a Google Maps layer.
Yea, I'm in the same boat as you. The wife and I just recently switchted to android, from being long time iPhone users. We both liked and used Latitude a lot (well for the 2 months that we had it)
I didn't know about them having a paid service, not that I would ever pay for that. That's just as dumb as what the carrier wants to charge for a similar feature.
You could try Glympse.
http://www.glympse.com/get_glympse
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.android.glympse
ShadowLea said:
You could try Glympse.
http://www.glympse.com/get_glympse
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.android.glympse
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Thanks for the link. Glympse appears to have a lot of features that latitude never had and I will check it out. However, it doesn't have (by design) automatic, persistent location updating that can be displayed on Google maps like latitude had for free or coordinates has for $240/person/year.
I actually signed up to speak with a Google sales rep for coordinates and asked him point blank how coordinates was any different than latitude. He feigned ignorance that latitude was even a thing which is probably his sales team's marching orders. Sad.
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My excitement for a Google watch died after getting one. I soon learned that the apps and features I wanted weren't supported, mainly Google maps transit with the watch. Also when I travel to places like Japan, I'd love to tap my watch I instead of carrying around a train pass (suica/pasmo). But Google wallet only lets you do that for Japanese accounts
I didn't really care about about the health related apps, but I continued to use it for meeting reminders. When my watch died one day and I forgot to recharge it...I left it on my desk for like a year. I just found it and I'm considering using it again...but to what end?
Are there any interesting apps being made that I could try? Idk what I'm looking for but nothing health or workout related.