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YourMatt  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cool Feature or Downright Creepy?

Definitely cool.

I was impressed when I found my Android phone doing this. I think it's useful and not just some whiz-bang feature.

I think your argument for creepy is because you haven't used the Apple maps and may see it as a privacy concern since you didn't approve it to do this tracking. That was probably in your OS agreement. If you want to turn it off, there are instructions here.





insomniasexx  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My reason for feeling a bit creeped out is because it is tracking my location in the background without me knowing about it. Granted, I should've known and I should've looked back through every single setting when I updated. Mainly I just chose not to think about it until I was confronted with it front and center.

I also wonder what other features are tracking different things without me knowing about it.

forwardslash  ·  4034 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actively tried to get the 'Google Now' app/thing to work for me to help my scheduling but it wouldn't. There is a bus stop a short walk from my place and I wanted it to let me know when it would come on a given day (it does seem to know the public transit schedule). It's been an exercise in frustration more than anything, because I know that it knows a lot about me but it refuses to assist me in anything other than its own time or way.

For instance I will be walking around and it will tell me when the next buses are coming for nearby stops, except for the one that I live by. It has also guessed where I 'work' (go to school, whatever, I can forgive that) and what times I'm usually there, so it will tell me when I need to leave and what route to take at any time except when I actually need to leave, i.e. in the morning.

I wouldn't necessarily mind having a system that notices my patterns and notifies my of when I need to leave, what route, what the traffic is like, etc if it would actually work and not annoying the hell out of me. And I'll be damned if I can ever get voice recognition to work.