If you happen to use Google’s Location History feature, you probably realized by now that it’s quite accurate when tracking information – it’s useful when recommending restaurants or find the best driving routes to wherever it is you need to go.
If you need to keep tabs on your kids’ whereabouts, it also locks in with Location Sharing.
There are some, though who are worried that its constant tracking might affect their privacy or security but, because the feature is so useful, are reluctant to delete it.
For those, Google has now finally come up with a way to balance the fact it takes in so much sensitive data – in the upcoming weeks, Google will start offering the users the option to automatically delete their location data at intervals of 3 or 18 months, unless they’d prefer to do so manually.
Any data older than the time limit you chose will be automatically deleted afterwards.
In a time where the security of collected information is quite shaky, it’s becoming more and more of a priority for the major companies out there to offer the users ways in which they can protect it.
If these measures are enough to keep private information safe though, that remains to be seen.
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