Smartphones with no sim, no location service on or even that which has just be reset to its factory mode still keeps tracks of you and sends information to Google.

It's been proven that Google has been collecting Android phones' locations data even when location services are turned off, a a revelation made by an investigation that Google tracks you.

Quartz, an online media publication observed that android smartphones mutually works hand in hand with others thereby collecting the addresses of a nearby mobile phone masts and sends them back to Google.

The data collected has no bound that even if the service location (GPS) were turned off on the phones, no installed or pre-installed apps, or no SIM card in the phone. It collects data regardless of all these and send them to Google and Google tracks you wherever you go.

"The result is that Google, the unit of Alphabet behind Android, has access to data about individuals' locations and their movements that go far beyond a reasonable consumer expectation of privacy,"

Wrote Quartz reporter Keith Collins.

Also, a Google spokesperson told Quartz that the cell tower addresses were included in information sent to the system Google uses to manage push notifications and messages on Android phones for the past 11 months. They were never used or stored and the company is taking steps to end the practice.

It's no longer a secret that Google tracks you with your phone's location at every instance in time, many of the apps we use on a regular bases wouldn't work as well without the device location services turned on.

Also, we the end users also have the right to tell Google through your Android phone to remove your location history from your Google Maps Timeline and stop keeping screenshots of your old searches if you're so concerned about your privacy.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this.

http://www.techsphere.com.ng/google-tracks/

Old news even Facebook dey do am

Ok, this will not work in Nigeria due to poor outage most times and downtime at the cell level

who doesn't know that


as long as u r online, you are being tracked

and your own phone camera can be used as a cctv camera were ever you are.


Is a matter of activating it.

Haha google is a fiend

Hmmmmm

Awof dey porge Belle, iPhones(iOS) are still the best.google collects so many information about you that you probably never knew about yourself. As far as u signed in with ur email account into Gmail,drive,plus,keep,map, just know u have no place to hide......

Hmm

Hmmmmm..I hv to be careful

It has been established that Google and Facebook are listening on private information of its users so this is not a surprise.

Yeah.its inevitable

connecting to internet means giving up your freedom.

If you did not design a tech from start to finish.. you have no say.. they can tell you anything.

In other news...


Google SUCKS!

perfecto!

So why has shekau not been found since...abi he no dey use phone?,


Yeyenation

How do u think Google map is able to give u on time traffic report?

And yet I can't find my stolen androids

I need location of Mugabe

make den track BH boiz abeg...abi dem nor dey use Google?

Give your life to Christ today.

Yeah we know

Hmm

morereb10:
who doesn't know that


as long as u r online, you are being tracked

and your own phone camera can be used as a cctv camera were ever you are.


Is a matter of activating it.

see as e dey easy for ur mouth like say e get the one wey ur country dey produce,

dingbang:
So why has shekau not been found since...abi he no dey use phone?,


Yeyenation

He no dey use android

Once one uses a mobile phone, he can easily be tracked even if he's inside a pit toilet.

Eveeything depends on the competence of the tracker.

They track you through chrome, your porn history, sites that have google analytics, gmail, youtube, lets just say all google products.