Yes, that's what I do. But then Google Maps on the phone nags you constantly that it should be on.
Removing the nagging would be an immense improvement and proof of commitment to privacy on Google's part.
Can you set up an API key app that pings an API weekly?
Some amount of advertising is expected in a free app.
For example, what if I wanted to implement loading automatic nearby locations? Naively, I could fetch the results within a radius R of the current received location. However, that's not good if I'm on the highway. The smarter algorithm would take into account the car's position, velocity, and angular velocity to calculate a better spot to query around, or perhaps a different shape to query in other than a circle with radius R.
I should be able to decide what "experience" I want. I don't want "more", I'm happy with "good enough".
Anyway, I'm very fine with how it works now, except for the nagging. I allow the app to know my location, of course, just not to store any history.
I don’t have any faith that I’m going to be protected from current / future persecution because I ticked / didn’t tick some box on some control panel on some service provided by Morally Bankrupt MegaCorp.
If your data is supposed to have been deleted but they ignored it, they have it illegally.
If someone from the state wants to prosecute you and requests the data, the company wouldn't own up to having it, because they're not allowed have it.
Why would they lie to you, and then sell themselves out to the state?
Fine, they might keep it, but not in order to assist in prosecutions lol
As someone who supported a major database in Google some five years ago: the amount of development effort that went into the GDPR compliance (we haven't even heard that name then, only that the EU is brewing a law that requires us to be able to delete data) was very surprising. So at least one corp does actually delete the data correctly.
I imagine that even if you trust the platform holder to handle the data responsibly, you might still worry what someone could do to you if it fell into the wrong hands due to a hack, or some future government that might abuse it.
Once you get into the tool and click on Activity Controls, you will see an option called Web & App Activity. Click Manage Activity and then the button under the calendar icon. Here, you can set your activity history on several Google products to automatically erase itself after three months or after 18 months. This data includes searches made on Google.com, voice requests made with Google Assistant, destinations that you looked up on Maps and searches in Google’s Play app store."
"It's deleted" is (or could be) another term for "You can't see it anymore, but it's there somewhere"
Haven't gone into ToS, but regardless, there's no way we can determine if it's really gone.
In my view, if I say I want to "delete" my account, I don't want a single trace of my existence on that platform from then on. No emails, no backups, nothing.
The only person who doesn't have access to that data will be the subject the data originated from.
Plausible deniability.
“We don’t have your data because you told us to delete it. Chortled chortle.”
If Google actually cared about your privacy you'd be able to delete the info for shorter intervals, or even have it not stored at all.
I wish there was a tool that regularly nuked my Facebook history as well, from comments in random groups to likes across the site. I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.
This attitude confuses me. Looking back at things I wrote ten years ago makes me think "huh, I used to believe X and now I don't, why did I change my mind?" and "X used to be really important to me and now it's not, what happened?". If I'm writing something today I'll often look back at what I've said about it previously (and I like having most of what I've written as blog posts so that's easy).
Then there's the benefit to others: being able to look back at what people were thinking in the past is super useful for understanding how the world has changed, and textual comments are great for that.
But it feels like everything can cause outrage these days and I don’t want to know what will look bad in 10 more years, out of context.
I’ll take out the archive and keep the memory on my computer, not online, for everyone to see.
There we go again, shaming mental health :(
