One buried Google Maps setting you need to change now - USA TODAY
One buried Google Maps setting you need to change now - USA TODAY |
- One buried Google Maps setting you need to change now - USA TODAY
- Google leads court filing supporting tens of thousands of U.S. visa-holders' ability to work - CNBC
- Google Pay now lets U.S. users send money to India and Singapore - CNBC
| One buried Google Maps setting you need to change now - USA TODAY Posted: 30 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT
CLOSE  Remember the old GPS units we used to get around back in the day? Before that, maybe you printed directions from MapQuest or another site. And before that, we relied on actual maps that no one knew how to fold quickly. Today, you open up your phone and click an app. It's easy, sure, but you might not think much about how much information you're giving away with every trip and every search. Speaking of searches, it's high time you cleared out your browser search history. If you don't do this regularly, start now. Tap or click for steps in all the major browsers. Before you use Google Maps to get somewhere, there's one simple change you can make to take back at least a piece of your privacy. See everywhere you've goneDid you know Google Maps works even if you don't have a Google account associated with it? You won't get all the features, though. Signing in allows you to save locations, like your home and work, and remember your preferred routes. Like any navigation app, Google Maps uses the GPS location on your phone to determine where in the world you are. Every time you navigate somewhere, your location is stored in your profile. That might not seem so bad. After all, your navigation app needs to know where you are. But all that info is seldom deleted from your account. You can check where you were on this day five years ago, for instance. It is eye-opening to check this list. Maybe it'll feel like a fun walk down memory lane. Or perhaps it will creep you out. DONE WITH BIG TECH?Google Search alternatives that respect your privacy Here's how to see your history: • When signed in, click on your profile picture to open your Google Account or go to your Google Account page. • On the left, click on Data & Personalization. • Under "Activity Controls," click on Location History. • At the bottom, click Manage activity. You will see a map that includes details like your saved home and work locations and all the recorded trips you've made over the years. You can use the Timeline box in the top left corner to search by year or down to a specific day. Try going back a few years. If there are trips recorded, you'll see a blue bar you can click. Select it to get highlights, like visits you made, places you traveled to, and the exact route you took. You'll even see how long it took you to get there. RELATED: Police have them. You should have one too. Here's a list of the best affordable dash cams. You can turn this tracking offAfter you're done exploring, you can choose to stop Google from keeping track of your movement in this way. • Open your Google Account page. • On the left, click on Data & Personalization. • Under "Activity Controls," click on Location History. • You can toggle this off. Note: Google saves where you go even when you aren't using a specific Google service. Switching this off stops tracking in the future, but it will retain a copy of your history. To completely delete your location history data, click on the Auto-delete option. You can choose to auto-delete the data older than three months, older than 18 months, or older than 36 months. You can still manually delete anything before that. If you turn this setting off, Google warns you may not see recommendations based on your history or tips to, say, make your commute easier. Your location may also still be saved when you use other Google services, like Google Photos. STORAGE FULL?The hidden iPhone setting that can eat up all your storage in a flash NEED A HAND WITH A PESKY PRINTER, NASTY UPDATES, OR WI-FI PROBLEMS YOU CAN'T CRACK? Get answers! Post your tech questions for concrete answers from me and other tech pros. Visit my Q&A Forum and get tech help now. Learn about all the latest technology on the Kim Komando Show, the nation's largest weekend radio talk show. Kim takes calls and dispenses advice on today's digital lifestyle, from smartphones and tablets to online privacy and data hacks. For her daily tips, free newsletters and more, visit her website at Komando.com. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2021/05/30/change-google-maps-setting-regain-some-your-privacy/5257754001/  |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT  Google is leading an effort to maintain work authorization for tens of thousands of people whose spouses hold H-1B visas, the high-skilled visa that's common in the tech industry. Companies across the tech industry, which has been historically vocal in fighting for increased immigration rights, submitted an amicus brief Friday in a case known as Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security. A Washington district court is considering the plaintiff's challenge to a DHS rule that allows so-called H-4 visa holders to work legally while their spouses on H-1B visas await green cards. Google, which organized the effort, and more than two dozen signatories said in the filing that invalidating the rule that allows some H-4 visa-holders to work "would result in these talented individuals being barred from the workplace, forcibly severing tens of thousands of employment relationships across the country." They wrote that 90,000 H-4 visa-holders would be impacted, 90% of whom are women. Tech companies that signed onto the amicus brief include Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Electronic Arts, eBay, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, PayPal, Reddit, StubHub and Twitter. Several industry groups in tech and other fields like manufacturing signed on as well. The plaintiff, Save Jobs USA, which identified itself in court filings as a group of computer workers formerly employed by Southern California Edison and "replaced by foreign workers imported on H1B guest worker visas," has claimed DHS overstepped its authority in allowing for the work authorization of H-4 visa-holders and asked that the rule allowing for it be vacated. In the amicus brief, Google and other tech companies said such a result "would be utterly destructive for the families impacted; by just one measure, about 87% of these families have made crucial life decisions on the promise of H-4 employment, including whether to have a child and whether to buy a house." Since the rule covers H-4 visa-holders whose spouses have been approved for permanent residency but are waiting for a green card, the companies wrote that families in that stage rely on the H-4 rule to bring in a dual income. The brief also notes that women would be disproportionately impacted if the rule were invalidated, due to the overwhelming percentage of women with H-4 visas. The companies discussed the mental health implications that could come with being stripped of worker status suddenly, including examples of those impacted by visa processing delays developing depression and anxiety. The companies also said H-4 workers are essential to their operations. Like H-1B visa holders, many H-4 workers have high levels of skill and education, with 99% holding at least a college degree and nearly 60% with a master's degree or above, according to the brief. Many work in highly skilled fields, with two-thirds of employed H-4 visa-holders working a science, technology and mathematics job, the companies wrote. They also referenced DHS' explanation in instituting the rule in 2015, which said that it would help to ease "disincentives" that caused H-1B visa holders to abandon their pursuit of permanent residency, which would minimize "disruptions" to U.S. businesses they work for." The companies say that economic analysis shows getting rid of the rule would lower U.S. gross domestic product by about $7.5 billion per year and the federal government would lose at least $1.9 billion in annual tax revenue. Plus, skilled workers who don't want to deal with the headache of the U.S. immigration system while waiting for a spouse to get a green card are more likely to go to other countries more accepting of their immigration status, the brief says. The companies contended that harm to U.S. workers is "minimal." "Indeed, the estimated job losses to domestic workers from the program are almost exactly canceled out by the 6,800 jobs created by the H-4 entrepreneurs who have founded companies and employ American workers," they wrote. WATCH: Here's how banning work visas impacts the U.S. economy  |
| Google Pay now lets U.S. users send money to India and Singapore - CNBC Posted: 11 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT  The Google Pay app now lets U.S. users make money transfers to India and Singapore thanks to integrations with Wise and Western Union. Google is jumping into the massive remittances market. The tech giant's mobile payments service Google Pay announced Tuesday that users in the U.S. will now be able to send money to India and Singapore. The company has teamed up money transfer firms Wise and Western Union on the feature, integrating their platforms into the Google Pay app. Users can choose between Wise or Western Union to move their money abroad. Google will take a small cut of the cross-border transactions made through its app. Google Pay launched a new version of its app in the U.S. last year, marking a push into banking services with the addition of checking accounts from lenders like Citi, as well as rewards and budgeting insights. Google is one of many large tech firms pushing deeper into the financial world. Apple launched its own credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs in 2019. Facebook is making a number of moves in digital currency and payments. In China, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial and Tencent have become formidable players in the digital payments space. Still, these Big Tech companies have no apparent ambitions to become banks. "We're not planning to become a bank or a remittance provider," Josh Woodward, Google Pay's director of product management, said in an interview with CNBC. "We work with the ecosystem that already exists to build these products." Google's latest financial services push will see it enter the huge remittances market. The World Bank forecasts that remittances into low- and middle-income countries were worth $508 billion in 2020. That's actually down 7% from 2019, a decrease the bank attributed to the Covid pandemic's impact on migration. The news is a big win for Wise. The London-based fintech firm, formerly known as TransferWise, is increasingly selling its platform as a service to banks like France's Groupe BPCE, Britain's Monzo and Germany's N26. Rival Western Union has been upping its digital strategy lately to ward off upstarts like Wise and WorldRemit. Going forward, Google wants to expand its remittances feature into the 80 countries Wise operates in and, eventually, the 200 nations Western Union covers.  |
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