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\"\"Incognito mode for Google Maps, announced last May, is currently in testing<\/a>. With the mode enabled, user activity isn\u2019t saved to the user\u2019s Google account. It was made available last week to beta testers using the preview version of the Google Maps Android app.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Strange Maps looks at the curious lack of Google Street View in Germany and Austria<\/a>, where privacy concerns are paramount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incognito mode for Google Maps, announced last May, is currently in testing. With the mode enabled, user activity isn\u2019t saved to the user\u2019s Google account. It was made available last week to beta testers using… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[462,82,646,108],"class_list":["post-1787832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-privacy","tag-street-view","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786709,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/where-apple-maps-and-google-street-view-will-be-driving-or-walking-next\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787832,"position":0},"title":"Where Apple Maps and Google Street View Will Be Driving (or Walking) Next","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple now has a fleet of cars collecting data for Apple Maps. Since they've been making a point about consumer privacy lately, this page lists where their cars are going to be in the coming weeks. (AppleInsider notes that some of that data collection is pedestrian-based.) 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After an \u201cearly preview\u201d showed up on Google Pixel phones earlier this year, Live View\u2014which superimposes walking directions on the view through your phone\u2019s camera\u2014was made available this week on Google Maps for both iOS\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/google-maps-ios-icon-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/google-maps-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787832,"position":4},"title":"Google Maps Updates","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Recent Google Maps updates include driving mode, an Android-only navigation mode that, as\u00a0Android Police describes it, \"uses\u00a0your location history and web searches to make assumptions about where you're going\u00a0and give traffic updates and ETAs as you travel\"\u00a0[via]. 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