Thread · 2 tweets · 20 Jul 2020

You'd think writing code to fight a pandemic would be a moment to exercise ethics. For Google, it's just a chance to grab more of your data. "Why did you do that," asked the frog, "we'll both drown!" "Because it's in my nature," answered the scorpion. 🐸 🦂

A very good question! When location is on, Google will track it constantly. See digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/2…. Recent Android tells you about background geolocation collection from other apps, but never from Google (for some reason).