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Originally Posted by danzvtil
110% correct, I believe phones can listen for key words, use typed in search terms (duh), know your location, and mind blowingly, your patterns.
Google knows every Monday morning I go to a certain customer premises (sales rep), when I hop in my car and Bluetooth connects, a map suggestion pops up telling me how long it will take me to get there.
When you go to Westfield, it knows which shops you spent time in, to target advertising ads to you.
When you google a business to get the contact number (like I do many times a day) it will tell you when the busy times are and the average time a customer spends there, all harvested from smart phones in the pockets of shoppers.
Cars are becoming electronic , so data harvesting is a natural extension of that.
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Google in general uses your info. Maps learn your general locations etc. I never inputted my home address into maps when it asked but because i leave location services on on my phone it i say take me home maps take me home. I never inputted my work address either but as i also am on the road google maps still cant give me any address for that. They get their traffic reports on google maps from taking in how many users are traveling how fast at whichever point then use that to calculate the fastest route, which isnt always correct.