Take a look at your Google Dashboard Location History.


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Some people may know about this, but for those of you who don't, it's both neat and creepy all at the same time. If you are on an a Android phone have it tied to a Google account and have location data turned on, it tracks everywhere you go. In fact you can take a look at where you went depending on the Month, Day and Year. Take a look for yourself

 

http://www.google.com/dashboard.

 

Log into the Google account that you have on your phone.

 

Now scroll down until you get to Location data, then click "View Location History"

 

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Very creepy. Especially as it has me travelling 10 miles to somewhere I've never been before whilst sat at my desk at work. :|

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Very creepy. Especially as it has me travelling 10 miles to somewhere I've never been before whilst sat at my desk at work. :|

 

"That is not what she said" ; )

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"That is not what she said" ; )

 

Actually I think HSDPA "booster" installed in our building really messes up the Location services - others are find the same when checking their history. Also Google Now thinks I need the weather report for New South Wales.

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turns out i have no location history for any date i checked in last few month.

i must have set up my phone correctly when i first got it ;)

 

 

still i found a lot of stuff about me in that dashboard, that i did not know google had,

like all photos from a trip i took a while back that i never though i uploaded anywhere. 

reminded me of a crazy good time i had on such trip, and also, that no one should be making this photos avaialbe, especially assocciated to my main google account.  :|

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Actually I think HSDPA "booster" installed in our building really messes up the Location services - others are find the same when checking their history. Also Google Now thinks I need the weather report for New South Wales.

 

I recall a post by someone who bought a second hand router and his google location constantly kept flipping to a US military base in Iraq or something.

 

Turned out the mac address didn't refresh on googles end.

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like all photos from a trip i took a while back that i never though i uploaded anywhere. 

reminded me of a crazy good time i had on such trip, and also, that no one should be making this photos avaialbe, especially assocciated to my main google account.  :|

Auto synch can do that with phone images normally these are classed as private unless you change the settings

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Very creepy. Especially as it has me travelling 10 miles to somewhere I've never been before whilst sat at my desk at work. :|

You may not have gone, but maybe your phone got bored? :p

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You may not have gone, but maybe your phone got bored? :p

 

Most certainly. I would be sick of my twitter feed by now if I were a handset. :)

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Most certainly. I would be sick of my twitter feed by now if I were a handset. :)

Then my phone hates me. It regularly shows as going off for long walks in the mountains by itself.

I'd gather it's purely down to bad GPS signal in the area. I know of several dead spots around here that send GPS devices bananas.

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I love location history, it's really interesting to go back month by month and see where I travelled. Always fun to do!

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When you disable it, are you just disabling if you're able to view it, and Google tracks you anyways regardless? Think about it.  :shifty:

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I love location history, it's really interesting to go back month by month and see where I travelled. Always fun to do!

Yeah i always find it very interesting. I track most of my stuff using the cycling app, Strava, but it's always good to see where i wandered on random days.

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