Change your intimacy settings now.
With the questions already asked about the implications of the intimacy of new safety defenses with that based on Android devices, another intimacy -related data warning has just fallen from Google. This comes with a May 18th term to act in order to save your time data and change your intimacy settings. Here’s what you need to know and do.
Google confirms that the time limit data will be deleted if the action is not taken
“You need to select new settings to avoid losing time data,” Google confirmed in an email that fell into my box on March 6, and those intimacy settings will have to be changed before May 18 for good measure.
Failure to select the exact intimacy settings and update the Google Maps app for your phone in the process means that all the data stored for visits and roads will be deleted.
This is actually a good thing, both from a security perspective and intimacy, as it happens. The Timeline Google Maps feature, once known as your location story, and completed the visit and road data on a useful map -based interface, is in the process of relocating from Google’s cloud servers. Where are you going? The most focused location of your smartphone’s own intimacy, where data will benefit from the safety and intimacy protection it brings.
Change your time limit settings now.
What Google says about time data changes
If you have the Timeline Function on for your account, then you are likely to have received a Google notice regarding future changes. Timeline is the useful feature of location history that allows you to travel on time and see where you were. “With the timeline,” Google said, “your visits and roads are automatically stored on a map on each of your equipment.” However, Google also warns now that this is changing and if you decide to keep the function of the timely activated time, “all your devices will save new visits to their deadlines – including any equipment that previously had the reporting of the located location history.” Therefore the request to change your intimacy settings now to avoid losing data, or to give up altogether.
Google has warned that if no action is taken, “your visits and roads will be deleted, and your time limit settings will be turned off after May 18, 2025.” Importantly, your equipment will continue to save time data, and Google will continue to use your data based on how location history works until then. According to Google, location history data can be used to show information based on anonymous location data, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, as well as to improve and develop Google services, such as advertising products.
Change the intimacy settings of your Google location now
Because enabling the time limit means that you give Google consent to maintain your correct location regularly, even when Google Apps are not open, to produce a map where you were, you may want to disable it anyway or just wait until May 18 when it is automatically turned off. If you want to continue using the time limit, then Google has said you will need to make sure the Google Maps app is up to be updated on your smartphone and then go to the timeline settings to change your intimacy preferences.
Google Timeline data deletion options.
If you want to continue using Google Time, you can choose how long you want to keep your data, starting at three, 18 and 36 months, or until you decide to delete it.