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Analysis of Google location service from a privacy perspective.

Google location service is a small app that runs in the background of every android device. It provides location details to the system and different apps that request it. If enabled, it also logs the location history of the device and stores it in the Google servers. In this analysis, we discuss the strengths and weakness of this app from a privacy point of view. With the advent of Smartphone era, our phones have become immensely powerful, with the ability to collect different variety of data using a wide range of sensor that are embedded in our smart phone. This has raised a big concern over the privacy of the users, since these data can be used to infer very intimate details of the user's way of life. We will try to discuss these issues associated with the Google location service. Application Description The release of first iPhone by apple sparked a new generation of smart phones with functionality comparable to that of personal computers. According to statista.co...