Google Privacy Checkup FAQ: How to limit tracking and still use the apps you love<article>
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<p>It's been a rough month for Google. A new report by <a href="
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/" rel="nofollow">Digital Content Next[/url] reveals some troubling news: Android phones, even when idle, send data to Google at an alarming pace. In fact the study found that an Android phone "communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period" with the Chrome browser merely active in the background. That's 10 times more data than iPhones give up.</p><p>If that's not enough to scare you, this report comes on the heels of a class-action lawsuit filed after <a href="
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/lawsuit-says-google-tracks-phone-users-regardless-of-privacy-settings-idUSKCN1L51M3" rel="nofollow">Google was accused[/url] of being less than clear about how, when, and where it tracks your location. In response to an <a href="
https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb" rel="nofollow">AP report[/url] that showed Android phones still tracked location even with Location History turned off, Google changed some of the verbiage on its <a href="
https://privacy.google.com/" rel="nofollow">privacy page[/url] to be clearer, but it doesn't look like it's going to change its tactics.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3299042/privacy/google-privacy-checkup-faq.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Google Privacy Checkup FAQ: How to limit tracking and still use the apps you love
