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Google User Data Purge Underway—What You Need To Know
Google is on a data-deleting mission. Users of Gmail, Google Photos and now Google Maps need to pay attention if they want to save their stuff.
The reasoning appears to be security-related, which is no bad thing: the Timeline location history feature is being relocated from Google’s cloud servers to on-device where it can benefit from the improved security protections your smartphone offers for such data. ForbesDark Web Facial ID Farm Warning—Hackers Build Identity Fraud DatabaseBy Davey Winder The only exception to this advice is for those who have taken the decision to activate the Advanced Protection Program for their Google account. Managing multiple Google accounts on the same device might sound like a nightmare of gargantuan proportions, but the fact is that couldn’t be further from the truth: it’s easy and, quite honestly, essential to prevent any chance of data deletion.
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