ISLAMABAD- Google can trace your location even when you have taken out yourbattery from mobile phone . On the top of your smartphone’s motherboardthere is a mini IRC battery which never gets switched off. This batterykeeps a track of your location. When you connect back to your internet thisbattery can convey your entire day’s track to Google.
A couple of months ago, a report in the Quartz had revealed that Google iscollecting location information from Android smartphones despite locationservices being actively switched off.
Even as the widening debate on encryption and fundamental right to privacycontinues to die down, the latest report on Google’s location datacollection came as a shocker for many.
An investigative report by Quartz had revealed that phones running Androidsoftware gather data about the user’s location and sends it “back to Googlewhen they’re connected to the internet”.
“The information is collected even if the user actively turns off locationservices, has not used any apps, and has not even inserted a carrier SIMcard”, the investigation had found.