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Google Maps protects users' privacy with another change
Google will now store users' data on their devices instead of on cloud servers
California: In today's age, it feels almost impossible to hide your location from technology companies.
That's why Google is making a change to Google Maps that will change the service in order to eliminate this perception.
Google will now store users' data on their devices instead of on cloud servers.
This change will provide greater protection to the privacy of Google Maps users.
According to Google, users can transfer their location history to mobile devices by December 1, after which the old data will be deleted from the cloud server.
It is important to know that location history refers to an encrypted record of the areas or places you've been.
In this new feature, Location History will be renamed to Timeline and the user will be able to view this data on phone instead of Google Account.
That means the user won't be able to access location history on the web from December 2024.
This feature was announced by Google in December 2023 but is now being implemented.
If you haven't enabled the new Timeline settings yourself, then Google will automatically transfer 90 days of travel history to the device where you're signed in to a Google Account.
This will cause all old data to be deleted by the company, however, you can save up to 36 months of data.
The company announced the feature in a blog post.
Google hasn't explained why the change is being made, but the company says location details are personal and they are committed to keeping them safe.