Google Maps will delete your timeline data unless you take action

On December 1, Google Maps will change the way it maintains location data: instead of being in the cloud, it will be stored on the user’s device and will delete the data from your timeline unless you take action.

On December 1, Google Maps will change the way it maintains location data: instead of being in the cloud, will be stored on the user’s device.

What does this mean? Roughly speaking, they will completely delete your old travel data unless you take action.

This feature, which was previously called Location History and is now called Timeline, is basically a personal map that allows you to remember routes and trips you have taken and places you have visited in the past.

Now, since this information will only be saved on your iOS or Android device instead of in your Google account, it means that you will no longer be able to access your timeline from the web starting in December.

The reason? Greater privacy for users, since it will not be available in the cloud.

Now, it does not stop at that alone, but You may lose all your Google Maps information if you don’t take action before December 1.

In this sense, you can decide whether to keep the data on the device until you delete it yourself.Choose to have data automatically deleted after 3, 18 or 36 months.

If you don’t decide and do nothing, Google will make the decision for you and move the first 90 days to the first device you sign in with. The rest of the information? He will say goodbye forever.

If you are interested in maintaining this type of information, it is something you can do very easily by entering from the application.

Keep in mind, however, that although keeping your location history may seem like something totally harmless, for a cybercriminal it is a kind of roadmap for everything you do on a daily basis.

The best thing in this case, therefore, is that you do not choose that the information be deleted in 3, 18 or 36 months, but rather that you directly deactivate the option.

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