This isnt truly correct and it should be called more urban American vernacular, as this is just as prolific as rural American vernacular, which are both part of the poor American subset.
I live in a reasonably good jurisdiction for cyclists. We have cycle paths, on road bike lanes (protected by a painted line), minimum spacing distances that drivers must follow
But still. There's a sweeping ramp down from a major 80km/h road down to minor roads. The cycle lane takes that exit as it's the main path to the city centre.
There's one wide lane for cars and one three metre wide bike lane, the way the ramp curves puts the bike lane on the inside of the curve. An uncontrolled car, or one skidding out would go away from the cycle lane.
A driver managed to hit and kill a cyclist there, fled the scene and called emergency services hours later, giving the cyclist no chance of being rescued. He was fined. He was a pretty high income person so the fine was insignificant.
If a driver cannot keep control of their car in that situation, and is so irresponsible as to leave the scene and delay help for the victim they should not be allowed to drive.
I can't find any email from Google or any info on my account settings that this will be happening? Can anyone point to official Google comms about this? As my settings say "keep everything".
Important: These changes are gradually rolling out to all users of the Google Maps app. You'll get a notification when an update is available for your account.
Location History is now called Timeline, and you now have new choices for your data. To continue using Timeline, you must have an up-to-date version of the Google Maps app. Otherwise, you may lose data and access to your Timeline on Google Maps.
Timeline is created on your devices.
Basically they're getting rid of the web version because they're moving the data to being stored on local devices only. Part of this might be because they got a lot of flak for stuff like recording location data for people who went near reproductive health clinics and other sensitive things. They can't be forced to respond to subpoenas for data if they don't have the data and can thus stay out of it, so I wouldn't necessarily say it's all that altruistic on their part.
Yes and no. If they get under regulatory investigation and are not in compliance with laws about storing minimal PII or deleting records that they said they deleted, then the fines are pretty bad. A lot of the regulatory fines scale with the annual revenue of a company, so even the tech giants can feel the pain.
The risk to the business for fucking around is pretty high. My guess is that some of this legacy behavior data just isn’t worth the risk.
In fact, google may be being told by the government to tell people that this data isn't being stored so people will be less concerned about it and not think it's being collected since many people know google collects data but may be naive as to the possibility that google is lying about the data being completely erased.
That’s fascinating, it sounds like the cost for Google to store, categorize, and disseminate this information is higher than the profit. Morals are unlikely to be relevant, after all. Or are they simply using devices as their storage medium?
The data has costs associated with it: they'll want to back it up, they need to migrate it when they change formats, they need to maintain the hardware it resides on.
And, as the article mentions, there are liabilities around law enforcement requests, costs due to data breaches, and regulatory requirements.
It's likely now your device does the initial processing of your data (store, categorize, and disseminate) and the aggregate is sent through as telemetry. They save on processing costs and users think it's privacy friendly.
But it's Google we're talking about here and smartphones are more than capable these days.
They don't want any more headlines of governments using their data to victimize people receiving abortions than they need to. I'd be shocked if that continued trend isn't the instigator of this.
That tracking is super invasive and gross, and not having it tied to an ad profile is a good thing, regardless of their motivations.
They are doing this because they care about you. And totally not because hoarding the data wasn't profitable enough anymore. It's only logical when you think about the fact that they were, up until now, going out of their way to save every GPS coordinate you ever visited with your phone in your pocket. It's all for you and because they care about you very much.
They probably realized it's not profitable because 90% of a user's visits are home, work, store... wash rinse repeat day in and day out. They can probably get more meaningful data from the person through their other various tracking methods.
That’s a bingo. What you buy at the store is way more valuable than “Ring went to Kroger, again.” So let’s buy a coupon clip app and get your info that way.
But all the data required to make the feature work will be saved locally, to their own phones or tablets, with none of it being stored on the company’s servers.
In an email sent by the company to Maps users, seen by the Guardian, Google said they have until 1 December to save all their old journeys before it is deleted for ever.
Users will still be able to back up their data if they’re worried about losing it or want to sync it across devices but that will no longer happen by default.
In a blogpost announcing the changes, Google didn’t cite a specific reason for the updates, beyond suggesting that users may want to delete information from their location history if they are “planning a surprise birthday party”.
But the company has come under increasing pressure to help users preserve their location privacy in the face of aggressive law enforcement efforts to weaponise its stored information.
So-called “dragnet” surveillance requests, for instance, have compelled Google to hand over information about every user in a particular region at a particular time, necessarily including many with no other link to a crime beyond a ping from a GPS signal.
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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was found not guilty on Thursday on all 15 counts of fraud he faced over the $11.1bn purchase of his company Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
HP wrote down the entire value of his company by billions of dollars soon after the deal closed, alleging it discovered major accounting improprieties.
He foisted blame for accounting irregularities – the source of HP’s claims of fraud after the deal had been completed – on other executives and the company’s employees.
For their part, prosecutors called Lynch the “driving force” at the helm of a years-long fraud, laying blame squarely at his feet as the CEO.
Prosecutors allege Lynch “paid customers to buy software” as a means of ginning up millions in fraudulent revenue.
On Thursday, Lynch’s attorneys Christopher Morvillo and Brian Heberlig declared that the jury had delivered a “resounding rejection” of the government’s “profound overreach” in this case.
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