谷歌安卓:好吧其實我們也記錄了你的位置

Great, Google now admits that they track Android user's movements

Just days after it was revealed that Apple records the movements of iPad and iPhone users with a tracking file, Google has admitted that they are doing the same thing.

A Google spokesman said the data is collected in a anonymous file with an associated ID number, which helps them to deliver targeted data for mapping and local services. They say the information cannot be traced to an individual by name, and is deleted if you ever reset the phone.

The spokesman called it an op in system, although if you install any mapping or search apps, the location reporting automatically switches on.

Is this a threat to our privacy, or is this the type of thing people should just accept in an age when we all want information at our fingertips? What if law enforcement and the courts start to subpoena this type of information to help with criminal investigations? It's hard to claim an alibi if the tracking data shows that your phone was somewhere else.

之前iOS系統被爆出記錄用戶位置的小祕密，那麼谷哥的安卓系統呢？很不幸，答案是：Yes。安卓系統也有保留此類信息。

Google發言人表示這些數據都是匿名收集的，無法用於追蹤某個特定的人，並且這些數據會在你進行手機復位之後全部抹消。其實具體的內容跟蘋果那邊說的也差不多，就不一一贅述了。