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Google Maps and Waze are both free. Google is just in it to harvest your sweet data (unless you stop the company from tracking you). You are likely to get the most use out of the apps on your mobile ...

Google Maps users started complaining a couple of days ago that their Timeline data had disappeared — and last night, a Google spokesperson confirmed it had been deleted. Speaking to The Verge, the ...

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Google has sent an email to some users saying that it accidentally deleted Google Maps Timeline data. The email was only sent out to affected users, but urges them to restore their data from a backup.