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Mr. Luddite

On 6/10/2017 12:34 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:30:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 6/10/17 10:50 AM, wrote:
If your privacy is important to you, stay away from Google maps too.
My wife had maps going to find a hiking trail. Hours later we stopped
for lunch at a restaurant in town. I paid cash and we did not use the
phone there but an hour later she got a text from Google asking her to
rate the restaurant.

Oh, how awful.

It certainly demonstrates haw someone, anyone, can track you simply by
looking at your phone. Bear in mind, all of that is discoverable by
Trump's FBI.

I am piggy backed on my wife's cell phone service. She has unlimited
data. I don't because I don't use it that much. A couple of months ago
I turned on the "Location" services on my phone. The data usage pegged
for that month and I was getting "running out of data soon" messages
every two weeks. Turned the location service off and the data usage for
this month is 0.01 Gb.

Obviously, using the location service uses a lot of data. I don't need
a message on my phone telling me the supermarket parking lot is a great
place to take a picture.