Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dudley Brooks Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Where is Google Maps Timeline stored on Android? (Android 14 UI 6.1 on Samsung A54) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:17:15 -0700 Organization: Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dbrooks@runforyourlife.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:17:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9641d4a9511ae479da05e83b847ffc48"; logging-data="3280517"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ty+T1khZEIVAQBpEzv1UhK3a63bz5L9o=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BRgTIF8J3AOO0zt/v4c+RzWm91w= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3463 On 6/14/24 1:21 PM, Enrico Papaloma wrote: > On 6/14/2024 2:00 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote: > >>> https://support.google.com/android/thread/18328571/why-is-there-a-firebase-app-indexing-option-under-accounts-with-several-google-apps-listed >>> https://xdaforums.com/t/privacy-anyone-know-how-to-clear-google-map-search-results-in-the-android-firebase.4369547/ >>> https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/gdg-oslo-hidden-android-features/75463195#23 >> >> The last one sounds interesting. I'll check it out ... later ... and >> see if it applies to the *current* Android version! ;^) > > Page 23 of the powerpoint slide is about Firebase App Indexing. > If you can figure out what it does, please let me and everyone else know. > > As far as I can "see" with my own eyes, the Firebase App Index on my phone > is uploaded periodically (roughly about once a month it seems) to > "somewhere" but I don't know where it's uploaded to. > > It just says the last time that it was uploaded, which is usually within a > month - but it doesn't say what initiated the upload nor to where. > > If that wasn't disconcerting enough, it has all the places I've ever > searched for in that month and worse, it has all my contacts that I've > contacted, and worse it has every app I've used and for how long I've used > them, etc. > > So this Firebase App Indexing contains a lot of private data that I did not > ask to be saved and uploaded - and yet - it's saved and uploaded somewhere. > > Of course I've searched for what the purpose is of the Firebase App > Indexing, and all I can glean from the results is that it's something > developers are supposed to be interested in for purposes somehow related to > Google Searches. > > I wish someone would explain to me what Firebase App Indexing is doing. Amen!