Your Location ‘Extremely Valuable’ to Google

May 2nd, 2011

Via: International Business Times:

Then, just weeks ago Los Angeles-based researcher Samy Kamkar illustrated that Google Android based smartphones were sending precise GPS location and other data back to Google “several times an hour.”

“I cannot stress enough how important Google’s wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy,” Google location manager Steve Lee told founder Page in the memo. “We absolutely do care about this because we need wifi data collection in order to maintain and improve our wifi location service.”

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