Google has a serial - killer - grade stash of cognition about its users . This is not news , but to really cram the point home , Google is releasing a tool that lets you go back through history , and retroactively follow your every move .
The Timeline characteristic is rolling out slowly for Google exploiter on Android and desktop . If you ’ve catch Location History turn on ( it is off by nonremittal , but that ’s easy to change in Google’sprivacy hub ) , you’re able to open Maps , and view your “ real - time routines”—i.e . voyeuristically haunt yourself like there ’s no tomorrow . Just click the side menu on Android , or options button in the search saloon on screen background , and ‘ your timeline ’ is innocently cling out under ‘ my places ’ .
Google frames the choice as a way to remember the bar you trip up across the other day , and all slightly - too - close up - to - family jokes about Google ’s creepiness away , I can actually see the uses for Timeline : recalling what you did whilst blackout drunk will be easier , for a start .
There ’s also a few other integrations build in : if you employ Google Photos to economize geotagged video , they ’ll show up alongside your location ghost , for surplus nostalgia points . you’re able to also snap on spot you ofttimes visit and give them names , which translate over to unconstipated Google Maps and Now usage .
This is also probably a safe time to cue you that Google has atwo - factor assay-mark login option , and if you were n’t using it before , you sure as hell should be now .
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