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Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 26 2017, @04:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-over-here! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Google Maps has today announced a new feature to allow you to share your location with others. While that might seem creepy, it's not the first to add this type of functionality. Facebook tells you when a friend is nearby — it even lets you "wave" at them and gives you the option to send a message if they holler back. Foursquare's Swarm lets you check in wherever you are and both Lyft and Uber give you the option of seeing where your friend is if they share their ride location with you.

Now Google Maps will let you tell your friends where you are and give them directions to your location. It will also let you pick a special friend (like a family member, spouse or love interest, for example) to share your location with long-term.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @07:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @07:18PM (#484421)

    I use a VPN to change my IP address multiple times per day.
    I use ublock origin, noscript, clean links, request policy, self-destructing cookies and random agent spoofer.
    I'm pretty confident google is not tracking me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @09:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @09:36AM (#484561)

    I use ublock origin, noscript, clean links, request policy, self-destructing cookies and random agent spoofer.

    If you still keep going to the same sites regularly like Soylentnews then you're like some guy who wears a different disguise everyday, claims he's from a different country (speaks with a different accent) but goes to the same Starbucks fairly regularly, gives a different name and pays only in unmarked bills. Yeah those Starbucks workers won't recognize your face, but I dunno if you really untrackable... ;)