Explore Your Activity on Google With R: How to Analyze and Visualize Your Location History
Find out how and how much you have allowed Google to track you, using a copy of your personal data
Thanks to Google Maps, today it is very difficult to get lost even when you are in an unknown place, as long as you have a good internet connection, GPS, and your smartphone with enough battery, right? The price: allow it to read your data, your geographic information. You’ve entrusted Google with valuable information for a long time, without even knowing it, and this also includes a long history of your locations.
It was in 2005 that for the first time the world met Google Maps on the desktop, then quite different from how we know it today, however, it is a milestone to be highlighted. From that year on, the world began to forget about the huge printed maps and plans that we kept with such care, such as the “Guía Roji” (Guia Roji was at the time a big company producing plans and guides from all over Mexico).
It was not, however, until approximately 2012, with the mobile revolution and the launch of smartphones…
