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Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline

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On 2024-11-21 15:43, micky wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:02:17 -0500, micky
> <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> 

...

> Yet the Timeline knows I was there and the name of the kiosk, Beyoutiful
> Store.  Again, I had forgotten that name.  (A lot of the stores in the
> malls had English names.  I guess like in the US, a lot of stores have
> French names.)  But I only spent a couple minutes there, since they had
> souvenirs but no hats.  Why did they record it?  Maybe... I had found
> the place in my phone and then gone there with the phone on but without
> navigation.  Maybe timeline put 2 and 2 together and listed that as a
> place I went.  Then I went to a movie and I didn't use navigation. I
> asked directions to that too, and it knew that too, by name.

There are two methods it can use: WiFi names, and bluetooth navigation 
points. I don't know the exact name, but they can setup bluetooth 
devices inside malls so that navigation works inside.


> 
> Although it didn't know that I went to a bank in that same mall to try
> to get money from an ATM or that I ate in the food court (and was there
> for a long time. I called a friend in Georgia from there). Or that I
> couldn't find my car and had to ask the staff to find it for me, and
> wait while they looked. (Not my fault. I noted where it was in relation
> to the glass-enclosed room on the parking level with desiccators and an
> elevator, but didn't realize there were 3 such rooms (a big mall).)
> 
> It knows that I spent 11 minutes driving there, 6+ hours there, and 19
> minutes driving back to the hotel.
> 
> It knows when I'm on a plane.  Is that a deduction because I'm moving so
> fast???

Probably. On one trip of mine it knew, on another it did not. Go figure.

> 
> It knows when I'm home all day, but it gives the google maps Home
> address, which is two townhouses away from my real address (for security
> purposes). That means it "rounds" my location, that since I was so near
> home (44 feet) and it was for 22 hours, it figured I must be at home. It
> says from 00:11 - 22:19. I must have turned my phone on at midnight and
> forgotten to turn it off.    Every time I go home, it gives my google
> maps address, 2 doors away.  Another deduction.
> 
> It knows when I visited a friend and I'm sure I didn't use navigation
> but I did have the phone on and probably the map application running.
> And it knows when I stopped for lunch at a drive-through, and I know
> that was spur of the moment, no navigation involved, and only lasted by
> them from 16:04 to 16:12, yet they have the name of the place,
> 
> Another day I went to another friend and it just shows a straight line
> to her house when the streets require a bunch of zig zag (zig zag which
> shows on some other days.)  

It is not tracking continuously, but at intervals.


...


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Location History is moving to  on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-16 21:39 -0500
  Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-17 09:57 +0000
    Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andrews <andrews@nospam.net> - 2024-11-17 14:23 +0000
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-17 18:52 +0000
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-11-18 18:23 +0000
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andrews <andrews@nospam.net> - 2024-11-18 21:31 +0000
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-11-17 22:22 +0100
    Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-17 18:49 +0000
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-18 08:52 -0500
    Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-19 22:07 +0000
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-20 05:17 -0500
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 11:08 +0000
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 11:30 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 11:37 +0000
              Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 12:24 +0000
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-20 11:18 -0500
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 11:05 +0000
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-20 13:54 +0200
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 12:28 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-21 00:37 +0200
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 14:26 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andrews <andrews@nospam.net> - 2024-11-20 16:31 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-21 00:35 +0200
              Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andrews <andrews@nospam.net> - 2024-11-21 02:29 +0000
              Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-21 06:45 +0000
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-13 11:30 +0000
  Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-17 14:21 +0100
    Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-17 10:02 -0500
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-21 09:43 -0500
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-21 11:34 -0500
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-22 15:39 +0100

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