Your Location 'Extremely Valuable' To Google

Posted by timothy on Monday May 2, 2011 @12:15AM from the rather-important-to-me-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google recently wrote off concerns about its mobile devices sending precise user location data back to its servers, but recently uncovered emails illustrate that user location is instrumental in its strategy. Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, wrote to Larry Page, founder and now CEO, explaining that location data from mobile phones was 'extremely valuable to Google,' especially given the privacy blow-up concerning its Street View cars at the time."

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Re:Wait, can they get that? by xMrFishx · 2011-05-02 00:23 · Score: 2, Funny

Course they can, they just pay some chinese kid to follow you instead of doing it digitally. Call it analogue tracking systems...
If only bin Laden. . . by MagusSlurpy · 2011-05-02 00:23 · Score: 4, Funny

. . . had been more of an early adopter. . .

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Re:I'd rather Google than Apple or Facebook by rips123 · 2011-05-02 01:56 · Score: 1, Funny

Tin foil hats all round!