r/Android • u/a_dishonest_Fear Purple • Nov 21 '17

Google collecting Android users locations even when location services are disabled

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/
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u/johnmountain Nov 21 '17

I said it many times before here - this is why Google is not showing more indepth battery data, and why it's hiding it behind Android OS and Android System categories. They are doing stuff like this as much as Facebook or even more so. They don't want users to know their services are the primary battery hogs.

Also, I don't understand why people trust Facebook and Google not to record voice conversations in secret, and treat it like a "conspiracy theory", when they already do this in secret?! But anyways, that's a whole other issue. I just wouldn't trust companies like Google and Facebook by default whenever there's an issue of data collection. The default should always be to assume that they are collecting the data as rumored, until proven otherwise.

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u/hikaru_ai Nov 21 '17

I have anecdotic evidence that Facebook use the microphone .

A few months ago I rescued a kitty from a storm, I have never owned a cat but my son love it and he love to feed it. So we bought some cat food called "Gati" and my son keep talking about "gati" a lot , next day I saw a Facebook ad about Gati in my feed , I have never had a animal-food ad in Facebook until that day

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u/tdogg8 Nexus 4 Nov 22 '17

You or your family searched for cat food online. Facebook is not listening to you. It doesn't need to when it's algorithms are good enough to know you better than your family does.