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How to keep your position information recorded on Google

使っているスマホがiPhoneでも、Androidでも、パソコンがMac、Windows、Chromebookでも、Googleがデジタルライフの大半を占めている可能性は高いです。【全画像をみる】How to keep your position information recorded on Google残念ながら、Googleは様々なアプリやデバイスの膨大な位置情報を監視・保存しており、それを契約の一部としてきました。位置情報のトラッキングを断ち切ることはできますが、予想以上に大変です。現在、Googleのサービスには位置情報に依存しているものがあります。Google マップが一番に思い浮かぶと思いますが、Googleに自分の居場所を知らせなければ、遠くに行くことすらできなくなります。この場合、Googleが必要な時に位置情報を使用するのはあまり気にならないでしょうが、自分が気づかないうちにGoogleが位置情報を記録し、保存しているのが心配なのです。

Why is it difficult to understand how to disable location information?

If you are blindly looking at Google's privacy settings, you will find items such as "location history". As the name suggests, you will probably see that it is a setting that mainly manages user's location information and behavior. This is definitely true, as Google acknowledged that the location information of the app and service user in the "location history" was saved. If you disable the "Location History" (later, the way will be explained), Google will stop saving a lot of user's location information. However, it is not possible for Google to keep location information at all. There is another privacy function that Google uses to record user location information, but you may not want to disable the "web and app activity". This setting saves the data generated when the user uses Google sites, clicks ads, or using related apps. There is location information in that data. The following is the beginning of Google's "Web and App Activity". In order to provide faster search, better recommendations, and experience that match the person in Google Maps, Search Functions, and other Google services, users including location information on Google sites and apps. Save the activities of. In a detailed page about the settings, Google mentions not only user location information but also IP addresses. Even if you disable the "location history", it is likely that Google still records and preserves such data.

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