<story><title>Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/14/australian-regulator-investigates-google-data-harvesting-from-android-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flashman</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The information fed back to Google includes barometric pressure readings so it can work out, for example, which level of a shopping mall you are on.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I scoffed, but this is actually a thing: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4431287&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4431287&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(It&amp;#x27;s also useful for weather observations, see the old PressureNET.io site for an opt-in version.)&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my monthly mobile data usage for Google services is 110 MB and that&amp;#x27;s including the map tiles, Google Play services and Play Store (I have location history disabled). I&amp;#x27;d be interested in whether &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; is having a gig of their data used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brylie</author><text>I would really like to explicitly tell Google to stop tracking my location. Period. Despite what might be in their terms of service,this tracking is a violation of privacy. I have never given informed consent to such locstion tracking, and still get prompts to &amp;#x27;rate this location&amp;#x27; despite having explicitly disabled location history. Google location tracking is increasingly unethical.</text></comment>
<story><title>Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/14/australian-regulator-investigates-google-data-harvesting-from-android-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flashman</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The information fed back to Google includes barometric pressure readings so it can work out, for example, which level of a shopping mall you are on.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I scoffed, but this is actually a thing: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4431287&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4431287&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(It&amp;#x27;s also useful for weather observations, see the old PressureNET.io site for an opt-in version.)&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my monthly mobile data usage for Google services is 110 MB and that&amp;#x27;s including the map tiles, Google Play services and Play Store (I have location history disabled). I&amp;#x27;d be interested in whether &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; is having a gig of their data used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iopuy</author><text>A known avenue of data acquisition is to wait until a wifi connections to transmit large amounts of data.</text></comment>