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Google Maps is making a big privacy change to protect your location history


Make sure to save your data if you want to keep it.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. In an email sent to users, Google says you have until December 1st to save all your travels to your mobile device before it starts deleting your old data. The transition to on-device storage also means that you’ll no longer be able to access your Timeline from the web in December.

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