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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Privacy GuidesEnglish · 2 years ago

Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut

www.bloomberg.com

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Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut

www.bloomberg.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Privacy GuidesEnglish · 2 years ago
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Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

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      Perhaps not, but your mobile carrier will! I use a Pixel 5 with LineageOS installed (and no google services), but I also needed to install Google Docs for a project (since the web interface refuses to load on Android) which means that Google is still able to access my IP address–but I think that’s better than Google’s “location history”, or Play Protect on Android sending a list of all installed apps

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        Out of curiosity, if you’re on a Pixel, why not choose GrapheneOS?

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          I generally like being as close to mainline/AOSP as possible, and I used LineageOS for years on my Essential PH-1. That being said, it does look like the Pixel suffers from no lack of custom ROMs, so I may “distro hop” for a bit in the future

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          Who’s your carrier? I’ve been considering a switch to lineage or graphene but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet

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      Yup. The tracking stuff just makes it easier, but standard use of the phone sans tracking is still trackable.

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    What works as a phone app instead of Google Maps? The only thing I’ve seen is Magic Maps, but that shares location data with third parties, so that seems like an awful solution.

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      There’s OsmAnd and Organic Maps (and probably more). Both are open-source apps, use Openstreemap data, and work offline. You can get OsmAnd+ for free on F-Droid. If you want support the devs you can buy it in the Play Store. There’s also a free but limited version there.

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        @float @canihasaccount I discovered OSMAnd+ just last week and it works pretty well - so far.

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      @canihasaccount @throws_lemy organic maps or opentreetmaps

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      Click on the archive link!

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