Portland Press Herald

Google location data was used to find Jan. 6 rioters. It’s disappearing.

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9to5google

Google’s Find My Device network: How to opt out of offline tracking

Google is rolling out an expansion to the Find My Device network, which allows your devices to be located even when they’re offline. If that doesn’t seem like something you’re interested in, it can be ...
Android Authority

Google's Find Hub network is unreliable, but this simple change could fix it

Google could improve its Find Hub network by convincing users during device setup to select a more reliable, but less private, tracking option. This new setup screen rebrands the existing network ...
Android Authority

'Find My Device' on your Android phone is now called 'Find Hub' as Google rolls out update

Google has officially switched the Find My Device app to Find Hub. The service has been renamed across the Play Store, your phones, and the web. The new Find Hub app also includes a few changes that ...
Time

Google Will Stop Providing Law Enforcement Data on Which Users Were Near a Crime

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 ...
Android Police

Google's Find My Device app can now also locate your friends

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...
9to5google

Google on the Find My Device network’s privacy protections

With the launch of the Find My Device network, Google today detailed the user and privacy protections in place. The FMD network is intended to be “secure by default and private by design,” with Google ...
Reason

Accessing Google Location History Records Is Not a Search — At Least When Limited — Fourth Circuit Rules

Regular readers may recall my prior coverage of United States v. Chatrie, a case on the Fourth Amendment implications of collecting Google location history records—location records stored by Google ...
Ars Technica

Let’s attempt to decode Google’s confusing new location data settings

Google announced big changes to its most legally fraught set of user settings: your location data. Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Maps: New Location Data Controls & Ability To Delete Visits

Find out how the upcoming changes to Google Maps' location data controls could affect analytics data for businesses and advertisers. On-device Timeline storage is coming to Google Maps for enhanced ...

APT37 hackers abuse Google Find Hub in Android data-wiping attacks

North Korean hackers from the KONNI activity cluster are abusing Google's Find Hub tool to track their targets' GPS positions ...