# Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/2385>\
**Category:** Privacy\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/2385 "2018-06-21T07:28:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![patm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/patm/32/3125_2.png) [@patm](https://community.humanetech.com/u/patm)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/2385/2 "2018-08-22T01:56:08Z")

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@healthyswimmer, I wasn’t sure what the best place to post this would be. Thought it might go with @aschrijver’s post; LMK if there’s a better place for it.

> [@Secure email](https://community.humanetech.com/t/secure-email/2618/6):
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> ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/7/716b0ef44934dc396d20e36fc6c0fa392adf5f84.jpeg)
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> ### [Lawsuit says Google tracks phone users regardless of privacy settings](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/lawsuit-says-google-tracks-phone-users-regardless-of-privacy-settings-idUSKCN1L51M3)
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> Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it.

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