Privacy Protection｜Google Maps Timeline will not be stored in the cloud starting from December

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originalPublished in Hong Kong Economic Times Financial NewsEJ Tech Innovation Lab“

Google Maps“timeline”It is a personal map that records the route and itinerary of the user’s mobile phone location, but it may exposePersonal whereaboutsTo strengthen privacy protection, Google has decided to make these sensitive dataSeparate storageNo more backing up data to the cloud on personal devices.

Google Maps’ “Timeline” feature records the routes that users have taken, which may expose personal whereabouts. (Google online image)

If the “Timeline” is not set by the December deadline, the system will try to transfer the user’s travel records in the past 90 days to the first device logged into Google, and then delete the previous records. If the user wants to continue using the “Timeline”, he can set it to automatically delete data over 3 months, 18 months or 36 months.

NSA urges weekly reboot of computers to prevent hackers

The National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States recently releasedMobile Device User Guidegiving iPhone and Android users tips on preventing hacker attacks. In addition to not clicking on suspicious links, avoiding public WiFi, and disabling Bluetooth or positioning functions as much as possible, you should also shut down and restart your phone once a week to make it more difficult for hackers to eavesdrop or collect data.