[melange]

Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.

[kamjam]

While I agree with the sentiments of what you are saying but the 'move along' has nothing to do with it being Google. This has been known by everybody for a long time and discussed here on HN. All the 'article' shows is that there are some tools to see that info has been collected.

There is no point in flogging a dead horse. So yeah, move along.

[melange]

Fair enough.

[dannyr]

Where have you been? Pretty much every week people posts their outrage on Google here.

So a user explicitly AUTHORIZED Google to track his/her location and we should be outraged at Google?

[melange]

It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.

[dannyr]

Have you actually used this feature?

I did. I know what it does.

I'm pretty sure nothing would dampen your fake outrage though.

[melange]

Where have I expressed outrage? Also you are clearly highly technology literate, so you understanding something is not representative of what regular users understand when they click through an agreement.

[Oletros]

Scandal for collection data you explicitly have opted in? Really?

[melange]

Don't you remember the scandal around apple storing local data only on people's iphones? That was explicitly opted in-to.