It is one of the most popular apps in the world, certainly the most successful one regarding the analysis of itineraries and maps: a planetary success, that of Google Mapswhich has recently been 20 years old. In all this time, the mapping service continued to expand and improve itself, coming to include data of hundreds of millions of shops and companies and being contacted daily by an ever increasing number of people.
Users, especially those who have continuously used the application over the years, have often and willingly supported the function “Timeline“, Thanks to which it was possible to save your itineraries on the cloud. The option, when activating, allows you to keep track of travel and movements, and to recharge them to be able to consult them again. Just this particular aspect, however, made the fear arise that access to sensitive data such as those relating to the paths followed by the users of the service could become dangerous in the event of a data breach. To overcome this risk of violation of privacy, So, Google decided to intervene with an important update on the calendar next Sunday May 18th.
Starting from this date, the itineraries will no longer be saved on the cloud or accessible from any electronic device as still happens but will only be archived locally on each individual device: with this system the company hopes to reduce the risk that these sensitive data can end up in the wrong hands. The problem is that the passage will not take place automatically, so each user, in the event that he is interested in preserving all the chronology accumulated over the years, will have to act by that date: if this does not happen in time, the saved information will be eliminated.
However, Google will notify each user and to provide the screen the indications necessary to easily complete the transfer of our information filed on the cloud.“If you do not update the settings before the deadline indicated in the emails and notifications received, some or all the data of your history, such as visits and paths, could be deleted”In fact, we read in the message.
It is also the opening of Google Maps to open a Gemini:
Thanks to the AI, the user will get information for example on toll costs or on the available parking lots, and will be able to interact with the system through natural language, thus obtaining a real virtual assistant.