Weekdays, when you want to use the map navigation, APP will remind that for more accurate navigation, it is recommended to turn on GPS positioning service. And this feature, many users will turn off this feature for battery life.
However, the latest news shows that even if you turn off the location-based services, Andrews still able to accurately get your location, even more frightening is that you are without your knowledge.
Google was exposed secretly collect Android user location data official said the collection was unused According to Quartz, Google has been collecting Android user location data since the beginning of the year, including those who choose to turn off location tracking and remove SIM cards.
Reported that Google has been through the Android smartphone to collect the user near the communication tower address information, this data can be used for 'communication tower triangulation' technology, the technology is widely used to locate mobile phones or other use from the surrounding communication tower Every time a user carries an Android phone to a signal range of a new communication tower, the phone collects the address information of the communication tower and then sends this information when it connects to the WiFi network or turns on the cellular data function Returned to Google.
Because location data collection is part of Firebase Cloud Messaging, an Android core cloud communications service that manages push notifications and messaging for the Android operating system, it can not be turned off and has nothing to do with what applications a user has installed, It will not be affected when you restore the phone's factory settings or remove the SIM card.
For the story, Google confirmed this, but said the data was never used or stored.
Google was exposed secretly collect Android user location data official said the collection was unused According to Google, "In January of this year, we began to seek to use the phone ID code as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of information transfer. However, we never included the phone ID in our network synchronization system, so the data Will be discarded immediately and we have also updated the system to no longer request a mobile ID.
Although this behavior is frankly acknowledged by Google, but this kind of without user consent, unauthorized access to personal data of the user, if the intention to make use of, will be a disaster for the user. How do you think about this?
