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Found out my phone's weather app tracks my location every 30 minutes, even when closed
I was digging into my Google account's activity controls yesterday, looking for an old search. I clicked on 'Location History' and saw a map with dots everywhere, even at my house when I was asleep. The timeline showed my phone pinging my location every half hour, and the source was the default weather app. I never gave it permission for constant tracking, just for when I opened it. Has anyone else checked their location history and found something like this?
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anderson.gavin3mo ago
My old Samsung did that with a fitness app. Found a year of location data in some random system folder. Deleted the app right after.
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burns.richard1mo ago
Did you check if it was still uploading data after deleting?
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