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Of course it is, because I opted in when it asked if I wanted to be tracked. Google also sends me an email once a month to remind me I chose to be tracked.

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How do they think Google Now and all those other lovely services work? New news? I think not, move along.

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

While I agree with the sentiments of what you are saying but the 'move along' has nothing to do with it being Google. This has been known by everybody for a long time and discussed here on HN. All the 'article' shows is that there are some tools to see that info has been collected.

There is no point in flogging a dead horse. So yeah, move along.

Fair enough.

Where have you been? Pretty much every week people posts their outrage on Google here.

So a user explicitly AUTHORIZED Google to track his/her location and we should be outraged at Google?

It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.

Have you actually used this feature?

I did. I know what it does.

I'm pretty sure nothing would dampen your fake outrage though.

Where have I expressed outrage? Also you are clearly highly technology literate, so you understanding something is not representative of what regular users understand when they click through an agreement.

Scandal for collection data you explicitly have opted in? Really?

Don't you remember the scandal around apple storing local data only on people's iphones? That was explicitly opted in-to.

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