From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-03 17:10, Marion wrote:   
   > Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>> On all my Android/Google stuff if I log into one Google app I'm   
   >>> automatically logged into all the rest of the Google apps on the device. If   
   >>> Google Maps isn't on the device, when I later install it, it's logged in   
   >>> with no further effort on my part. Same on this Chromebook I'm posting with   
   >>> BTW. So my GUESS is that when most folks add Google Maps to their working   
   >>> Android device it's signed in automatically.   
   >>   
   >> Certainly. Almost everybody uses their android phones logged into them,   
   >> and thus, to google maps.   
   >   
   > I concur with AJL & Carlos, where I would simply like to add value.   
   >   
   > Just to be clear for all, while, on my phone, I can't log into my Google   
   > Accounts (yes, I have many), I would agree most people almost certainly do.   
   >   
   > But my only point about that is those same people can't logically complain   
   > about the lack of privacy - where this thread is about location privacy.   
      
   Notice that most people would not complain about "the company" having   
   the data, but complain about others having access to that data.   
      
   We also complain about "the company" using the data in hidden ways, in   
   ways different that what they said they do. Ie, when they are found out   
   doing something that, for instance, is illegal in the EU.   
      
   Another complaint we have is that USA companies with servers in the EU,   
   so that they claim that the data resides in the EU and never leaves the   
   EU, nonetheless there is a law that allows the USA government to collect   
   that data from any USA based company at servers outside of the USA.   
   Which is the reason that several countries are realizing this and   
   migrating from Microsoft services to other EU based companies with no   
   USA ties.   
      
   (The USA has a tradition of forcing their laws extraterritorially)   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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