Why is Location Data is Such a Big Deal? #shorts

Everyone knows Google tracks them online, so why is it such a big deal that Google was tracking people's physical locations without user's knowledge or consent?Show more

You can learn a lot of very personal things about a person based on knowing their location 24/7. Where they live, where they work, who's houses they visit, have they attended a protest, do they attend religious services and if so, what religion? Has a woman visited a women's shelter or an abortion clinic. Has a person spent time in a hospital or gone to a specialist's office?

Today law enforcement will ask Google for "geofencing data" meaning, "tell us the names and personal information of the owner of every phone that was within 200 yards of a certain place during a certain window of time when a crime is thought to have been committed. Every person who was in the area is a potential suspect.

#privacy matters