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 ...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

If you later choose a cloud backup for your location history, it will be encrypted end-to-end so no one, not even Google, can access it without your involvement. Google is moving location data from ...

University of California, San Francisco scientists are launching Covidseeker, a new study examining the spread of COVID-19 using people's self-donated Google location data. The researchers are asking ...

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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 ...