Google Helps Callers Find Themselves With Maps App
MediaPost Publications
November 29, 2007
By Mark Walsh
Nice news about a new feature by Google Mobile Maps Application. Now users can know their approximate location.
The technology uses information broadcast from cell towers combined with Google algorithms to determine location within a neighborhood. In relation to privacy issues, Google says that it doesn’t gather any personally identifiable information or link any personal information with location data through the new My Location feature. “So that means we don’t know name, phone number, email or even account log-in as part of this feature,” says a Google spokesperson.
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