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Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] epyon22@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Curious on the implementation. For example apps like signal and WhatsApp require you to either move or lose your data when you get a new phone. This will have to be the way Google implements or they are storing it somewhere on their servers.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The aren’t storing it actively in something you can search at all times, but it’ll be in the “backups” and “restore” pieces still