Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.
  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 years ago

    What works as a phone app instead of Google Maps? The only thing I’ve seen is Magic Maps, but that shares location data with third parties, so that seems like an awful solution.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 years ago

      Perhaps not, but your mobile carrier will! I use a Pixel 5 with LineageOS installed (and no google services), but I also needed to install Google Docs for a project (since the web interface refuses to load on Android) which means that Google is still able to access my IP address–but I think that’s better than Google’s “location history”, or Play Protect on Android sending a list of all installed apps

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        Mobile carrier I (although it’s against my will) have less problem. Thanks for your input!

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Who’s your carrier? I’ve been considering a switch to lineage or graphene but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          I generally like being as close to mainline/AOSP as possible, and I used LineageOS for years on my Essential PH-1. That being said, it does look like the Pixel suffers from no lack of custom ROMs, so I may “distro hop” for a bit in the future

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Yup. The tracking stuff just makes it easier, but standard use of the phone sans tracking is still trackable.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      I believe these are like the Chrome “private” mode. It might look private to you, but they are definitely still logging everything.