www.urbo.com/content/google-is-quietly-recording-you-heres-how-to-hear-the-audio/11091

Very interesting read.

Very interesting article. I could hear all my voice notes. I have never been too concerned about my privacy as I believe that I have nothing to hide, but this worried me. I could hear voice notes where I used confidential business information including the bank account details of a client.

When used in conjunction with location services it paints a very detailed picture of my life.

A certain massage venue is my 8th most visited venue!

So thankfully i have nothing! My personal email is not on google/gmail. And although my punting email is a gmail, i always use it in private mode. My phone's private setting is on "location services off" so that even on my punting gmail account is no (location) history... very happy!

Just need to get rid of my vehicle tracking system...but my car's value should soon be low enough that the insurance will allow me to cancel this....

Wow that is extremely eye opening.

Here's what I don't get about the article author's reaction, as well as some of the reaction above. It is *YOUR* data. Your bank stores your balance on its servers. Your insurance company stores the details of every asset you insure. But at the end of the day it is still *YOUR* data and there are significant (more so in some countries than others) laws to protect that data.

The data is stored in such a way as to help you, not to invade your privacy. Think about it this way. You know in your head (mostly) everywhere you've been. If the law wanted that information they can compel you to provide it under penalty of perjury. Likewise it takes a court order of some significance to compel Google, or Apple, or Microsoft (they ALL do the same thing, don't be fooled into thinking otherwise) to provide any incriminating evidence. And Google, at the very least, has a long track record of fighting such court orders, whether you ask them to or not.

No, the only thing you really have to worry about is your spouse getting hold of the data, and that problem is very easily solved by using a punting phone and turning location services off on your main phone when you are punting.

In my (fairly educated - I did work for Google after all and know the back story about how they use data) opinion, this is much ado about nothing.