How to stop Google from recording your location

How to stop Google from recording your location

使っているスマホがiPhoneでも、Androidでも、パソコンがMac、Windows、Chromebookでも、Googleがデジタルライフの大半を占めている可能性は高いです。【全画像をみる】How to stop Google from recording your location残念ながら、Googleは様々なアプリやデバイスの膨大な位置情報を監視・保存しており、それを契約の一部としてきました。位置情報のトラッキングを断ち切ることはできますが、予想以上に大変です。現在、Googleのサービスには位置情報に依存しているものがあります。Google マップが一番に思い浮かぶと思いますが、Googleに自分の居場所を知らせなければ、遠くに行くことすらできなくなります。この場合、Googleが必要な時に位置情報を使用するのはあまり気にならないでしょうが、自分が気づかないうちにGoogleが位置情報を記録し、保存しているのが心配なのです。

Why is it so confusing to disable location recording?

Blindly browsing through Google's privacy settings, you'll see something like "location history." As the name suggests, it's a setting that primarily controls whether your location and actions are saved. This is undoubtedly true, as Google has admitted that it stores users' locations on apps and services in "Location History." You can stop Google from storing a lot of your location by turning off Location History (we'll show you how to do that later). But you can't stop Google from storing location information at all. There's another privacy feature Google uses to record your location, but you might not want to turn off its Web & App Activity. This setting stores data generated when you use our sites, click on ads or use related apps. The data contains location information. Below is the description at the beginning of Google's "Web & App Activity". Users, including location information and other relevant information on our sites and apps, to provide faster searches, better recommendations, and a more personalized experience in Google Maps, search features, and other Google services; save activity. On its settings details page, Google mentions that it stores your IP address as well as your location. Even if you turn off Location History, you likely won't be aware that Google still records and stores such data.