According to a report,
Google confirmed that Android smartphones are sharing your location data with
Google even if you have disabled the location service in your smartphone.
According to the report by
Quartz, "Google said that, this practice will be stopped by the end of
this month".
Even some researchers said
that although the data is encrypted, but it is possible to send the data to
third party if the handset is affected with spyware.
At this time, there is no
solution for stop sending your location data as devices both on mobile data or
on Wi-Fi are said to send location data to Google when near a cell tower. Even
if you factory reset the smartphone, the smartphone will even now send your
location data to Google.
"In January of this
year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additional signal to
further improve the speed and performance of message delivery," the Google
spokesperson to the news company. "However, we never incorporated Cell ID
into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we
updated it to no longer request Cell ID."
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