The FBI began to take advantage of a feature of Google Maps known for Location History to know the location of criminal suspects in the past. The Verge reveals that in the past four months, US police have asked the justice using data compiled by the Location History for the purpose of obtaining locations of individuals under investigation. Whether the data of the Google localization tool eventually be used in two trials – but it is known that US police values this data repository, which is described as having greater precision than is achieved by the networks mobile operators.
Location History of Google Maps collects user data from the GPS system, and connections to Wi-Fi networks and cellular networks. This data collection is already processed several years ago – because part of Google’s strategy for the area of the ads that take into account the location of Internet users – and recently came to integrate a feature of “timeline” that lets you know where walked the user of an Android phone in recent years.
the user can choose not to have the Location History, but that decision entails losing features like Google Now. once installed, the tool begins to collect location data, even if the user does not see. The functionality is private – but according to The Verge will not be so difficult for US police access to all this data, since Google has an abiding history of court orders. In this given joins another:. The existence of a manual that explains how police investigators can access the data, prevent hopelessly be erased by the suspects and carry out requests for information from Google
according to the Verge, the history of the location of a user can also be obtained on devices running iOS, Apple, but the accuracy is lower in these cases – is that in Android, location history is integrated into the operating system and can be used in conjunction with multiple Google accounts.
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