Take the steps above, and your location history will look something like mine does, below.įor more details, check out this LifeHacker article: PSA: Your phone logs everywhere you go. Scroll down to Privacy, and select Location Services.ĭisable all Location Services by setting the top slider to “off” - or scroll down to disable specific apps one by one, such as Google Maps. From the expanded menu, choose the Traffic layer. In the current map’s bottom-left corner, hover your cursor over the Layers icon. First, open a web browser on your computer and access Google Maps. Note: For greater privacy, you can also turn off Location Reporting, but this will keep apps like Google Maps from working properly. Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that 'Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps', and linked users to Google's location history map, which 'lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your. To check the live traffic data from your desktop computer, use the Google Maps website. Scroll down and tap on the Location section. If you have multiple Google accounts, check the history for each one. Set a time period to view - up to 30 days at a time.Ĭlick the “Delete history from this time period” link on the left side of this page. View your location history using Google’s web page.
To turn off location tracking, just follow these easy steps. In fact, I checked the location history page this morning and had difficulty finding any location data at all, because I’ve had location tracking turned off for months, with a few exceptions. The Java Client, Python Client, Go Client and Node.js Client for Google Maps Services are community-supported client libraries, open sourced under the. We’re highlighting it again because it’s trivially easy to turn off Google Maps location-tracking, if you want to. Cnet noticed it in December, 2013, TechCrunch picked it up a few days later, and now noticed it last week.
This location history page has actually been available for several years, since Google first rolled it out as part of Latitude, its now-defunct location-sharing app.
In the screenshot above, it shows some of my peregrinations around Paris in June of this year.
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