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Google TRUSTED CONTACTS is a horribly designed notification spam machine
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 15:57:07 -0400
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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: May 10, 2018 at 3:28:06 PM EDT To: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: [ NNSquad ] Google TRUSTED CONTACTS is a horribly designed notification spam machine Google TRUSTED CONTACTS is a horribly designed notification spam machine https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/NHr69TWioE6 So I suddenly start getting email notifications from people I've never heard of supposedly sharing their locations with me. Some new phishing technique? NO, it's GOOGLE! Their TRUSTED CONTACTS app allows anyone to start sharing their location with you WITHOUT asking first if you want to receive these notifications! UNBELIEVABLE. AND IT GETS WORSE! While you receive these as emailed notifications, and there is a Google website where you can see who is sharing their locations with you, there apparently is no way to make them go away from the website! You have to install Google's Trusted Contact app to do this. (What if you don't have smartphone or don't understand what's going on? I guess you're just you-know-what out of luck!) Wait, there's more! To install the Trusted Contacts app, you MUST enable location history and location sharing -- two features I normally do not use. So after plowing through all this, I figure out how to delete and block these unwanted shares. Then I delete the Trusted Contact app, and have to go digging around on the Google websites and Google Maps Android app to turn off location history, delete the location history that now exists, and disable location sharing again! If there was any easier way to do all this, I couldn't find it. The design and user experience is beyond dismal. Hey Google, are you drunk? --Lauren-- Lauren
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