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From: Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org>
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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
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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!  <Crosses two fingers in "ward off a vampire" gesture


-- 
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco