Google on Friday, April 3, 2020 announced that it has started releasing global location data in an effort to help public health officials track how people are moving during lockdowns and orders to stay at home around the world.
The tech giant confirmed that it is publishing anonymized data for 131 countries and regions around the world to show how people have moved during the course of the pandemic that has now infected over 1 million people.
The information is gathered using user data from Google Maps and other Google services.
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Here’s something you might want to cut and paste to follow off-line;
How to turn off location tracking on an Android device
1.) Open the Settings app on your Android and look for either the “Connections” tab or, depending on your phone, the “Privacy” tab.
2.) Tap “Location” and toggle the switch to off.
3.) You can also tap “Emergency Location Service” and “Google Location Sharing” to switch off location-tracking features there as well.