Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Google has been in the headlines of late as planned data ...

Karandeep has been with Android Police as a freelance writer since 2019, covering reviews for India, buyer’s guides for the US, and handy tutorials for everyone. He cares more about the impact of ...

Google Maps is killing Timeline on the web as it pushes users to only use the app to keep location data more private. Reading time 2 minutes If you’re mainly plotting routes through Google Maps on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, March 24, 2025: This story, originally published March ...

Google is rolling out a new Timeline menu on Android that lets you access your Google Maps location history. Google announced last year that it would no longer store your location history on the web, ...

For years, Google Maps stored location history in the cloud. Users could access their travel records anytime by logging into their accounts. But in December 2023, Google changed this system. Now, all ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

Google's data collection can be a double-edged sword: helpful in some instances and too invasive in others. Here's how to ...

Perhaps this was an act of political defiance on the part of one or more developers on the Maps team. Anyone with half a brain who can tell which way the wind is blowing with the current ...