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  • Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops

    Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops

    Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution. On Tuesday, the company published a blog post explaining that over the next year, Google Maps will stop sending data…


  • How to Drop and Share a Pin in Google Maps

    How to Drop and Share a Pin in Google Maps

    As good as Google Maps is, not every location is perfectly mappable in the app. Sometimes, where Google thinks you want to go might be miles away from where you actually want to go (this happens often to anyone trying to find the entrance to a national park). Or a new attraction might not be…