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Also, Google has updated terms and contractual protections, and explicitly stated…
As Google stealthily and silently became the Big Brother of today’s world as well…
The answer is simple, yet, it requires a true understanding of the company’s ways…
Secondly, Google also uses that data to track consumers and direct them to buy more…
Going into the data collection of Google’s specific services, Android is a Google…
Google’s tentacles have been increasingly reaching out to more users with the development…
In his landmark research, Schmidt studied Google’s data collection practices and…
Also, one of the most striking conclusions is that a major part of Google’s data…
Figure 1.1 Traffic Data Sent from Idle iPhone and Android Mobile Phones…
One of the dismal conclusions of this research is that, even if Google makes attempts…
The technical and complicated nature of these practices deems the transparency principle,…
Can Google identify a data subject directly from the information it has?…
Without encountering any difficulty, Google can “distinguish” a data subject from…
Can Google identify an individual indirectly from the information it has (when combined with other available information)?…
It is important to recall the indirect component of the “personal data” definition…
As Schmidt’s research re-affirms, the smartphone users’ collected data can be reconstructed…
GOOGLE LOCATION SERVICES…
Google is the network location provider on its mobile platform, where it has a location…
The permissions that smartphone users provide to Android settings determine the specificity…
Location data can be used by Google like other tech companies in order to offer basic…
LOCATION HISTORY…
In 2009, exactly a decade ago, Google launched Google Latitude, an app allowing data…
Today, the key features include the popular Location History that are used for purposes…
Google states the following as regards the Location History when starting the ph…
“Location History is not enabled on an Android phone by default, nor does the Android phone suggest it to be turned on when starting a new phone for the first time and setting the phone up.” …
However, it must be added that although what Google says is true, and Android phones…
Figure 1.2: Google Location History…
Google employs such features with its Location History tracking and record-keeping…
Data subjects can choose to delete the data after either 3 or 18 months. The function…
Last year, a Google revised help page attempted to clarify how Google tracks mobile…
In addition, the Location History feature is embedded into the start of commonly…
Figure 1.3: Location History Turn On RemindersSayfa 45…
Also, it was proven that with Android smartphones, when the user buys and starts…
The research conducted by Quartz discovered that there was no common language used…
Quartz’s findings can be considered to show a clear misrepresentation as CNIL’s recent…
“A list of types of movements that user’s phone thinks the user could be doing, by likelihood (like walking: 51%, on Bicycle: 4%, in Rail Vehicle: 3%); the barometric pressure; whether or not the user is connected to Wi-Fi; the MAC address which is a unique identifier of the Wi-Fi access point the user’s phone is connected to(133);…
Budington opines that this list goes far beyond what a smartphone user would expect…
“The Location History is turned off by default for data subject’s Google Account and can only be turned on if the user opts in.”(135)…
However, the details given on its support website are overall not sufficient for…
The only information given focuses on the deletion and request of the data collected,…
For example, a user can get traffic congestion related suggestions for his/her regular…
To sum up, according to Schmidt’s research and the Quartz report, the Location History…
Figure 1.4: Web-based Google Account Web & App Activity – New Delete History Feature (as of May 1, 2019) GOOGLE PHOTOS…
In the context of Google Photos, both the app’s own features and their relationship…
If the user chooses the places album, he/she is requested to turn the location history…
Figure 1.5: Google Photos Location History Turn On Reminder Also, for the purposes of the GDPR and as clarified in report,(141)…
