You can stop Google from tracking your Android device by disabling Google's "Location History" option, or by disabling specific apps.

You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of the places you've visited. You can also disable Maps from tracking you through the app's settings.

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 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, ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Google Maps, who are you? I'm incredibly surprised to see Google come up with privacy features I'd expect from a competitive navigation app. Not the search giant that makes billions of dollars each ...

If you’d like to check your settings and perhaps manually delete the data, go to the Location History section of your Google account. Jim Rossman / TNS A reader passed along an email from Google and ...

Google Maps has an issue with fragmented Timeline location history. However, a new tool will help you merge your data.

If you later choose a cloud backup for your location history, it will be encrypted end-to-end so no one, not even Google, can access it without your involvement. Rob writes from Washington, DC, about ...

Regular readers may recall my prior coverage of United States v. Chatrie, a case on the Fourth Amendment implications of collecting Google location history records—location records stored by Google ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...