Google has effectively ended the practice of "geofence warrants," where Location History in Google Maps could be obtained by law enforcement. On Wednesday, Google announced it would soon change the ...

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 is making some big changes to Maps that will affect anyone who uses the app to plan trips, get directions, and access previous destinations. In a recent help page update, the company revealed ...

A recent privacy overhaul of Google's location services may have rippling effects far beyond an individual's phone usage, suggesting that the dominance of law enforcement data sweeping may soon be ...

Google’s latest update to Maps protects users’ locations from law enforcement. Google’s latest update to Maps protects users’ locations from law enforcement. is a senior science reporter covering ...

Depending on who you ask, Google Maps’ Timeline feature is a nifty way to remember all of the places you’ve been, or a startlingly detailed log of your movement throughout the day. Either way, Google ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

Android 14 introduced a “Data sharing updates for location” dashboard. Users were warned today that Google Messages is sharing location data with third parties, but this is not the case. Users noticed ...

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Update, March 8, 2025: This story, originally published March 7, has been updated with details of more data that Google has confirmed it will be deleting unless account holders take swift action to ...

Google tracks the whereabouts of your Android smartphone, regardless of whether or not users have disabled location services. Android smartphones and tablets collect the addresses of cellular towers ...