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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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

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[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a setting to turn this off?

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No, your only option would be to move to something like GrapheneOS if you can. Note that other alternativa ROMs like Calyx will also share some location data with some companies.