Google's Find My Device Tool Can Now Map Out Exactly Where You Left Your Phone Inside Some Buildings (androidpolice.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's been messing around with indoor maps for years; you can check the layout of many department stores and other large indoor spaces in Google Maps. Find My Device can show on those maps where your device is located. Here's the changelog for the latest version: "Support for indoor maps to help you find your device in airports, malls, or other large buildings. And, Support for work profiles."

Comments

So they just retrieve the last place they

[Fly Swatter]

tracked you.

For once it might benefit the end user, but really they just want to help you get your tracking device back.

-We passed creepy a long time ago.

Re:So they just retrieve the last place they

[PsychoSlashDot]

You understand that they did this on Star Trek, right? You could ask the computer the location of any other crew member, and it would tell you. So this is OK.

You may mean this sarcastically, but I think it's potentially insightful.

Back when ST:TNG came out there was a lot of this sort of thing, but it never felt creepy Maybe it's because the only people who ever were shown asking the ship's computer for things like that were doing so for legitimate purposes or were high-ranking bridge crew. In real life, it's massive corporations doing it for profit and advertising, where advertising is a code-word for "influencing people to spend money they wouldn't otherwise."