Google is rolling out a new Timeline menu on Android that lets you delete, back up, or export your Google Maps location history.

Although Google Maps is all about tracking your location and data, there are two ways you can massively boost your privacy.

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored directly on user devices. Google itself will no longer have access to the data.

If you’d like to check your settings and perhaps manually delete the data, go to the Location History section of your Google account.(Jim Rossman / TNS) A reader passed along an email from ...

Regular readers may recall my prior coverage of United States v. Chatrie, a case on the Fourth Amendment implications of collecting Google location history records—location records stored by ...

A cool free tool creates a heat map of your Google Maps movement data in no time at all. You can immediately see where you spend most of your time and where you rarely go.

With the latest update (version 25.34.00.796159725), Google Maps now has a "Your recent places" section. Spotted by Android ...

Google announced big changes to its most legally fraught set of user settings: your location data. Google's misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits ...

How to save your location history Make sure you're running the latest version of the Google Maps app on your iPhone or Android device. Tap your profile icon in the upper right and select your ...

Summary Google Opinion Rewards app may switch back to using app-based location permission for surveys, potentially supplementing Google Location History.