Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Google has been in the headlines of late as planned data ...

A capable map app will save you time (and your sanity), but which one is best at dodging all the holiday season traffic? I tested both, and there's a clear winner.

Google Maps, who are you? I'm incredibly surprised to see Google come up with privacy features I'd expect from a competitive navigation app. Not the search giant that makes billions of dollars each ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

Samantha Kelly is a freelance writer with a focus on consumer technology, AI, social media, Big Tech, emerging trends and how they impact our everyday lives. Her work has been featured on CNN, NBC, ...

Google Maps is a spectacular web-based geographical application. This program is widely used globally, but very few know you can export past data for future reference. The best part is that the data ...

Google Maps has quietly restored a winter favorite, bringing detailed ski lifts and trail overlays back into the app after ...

Google says it will no longer store your comings and goings via Google Maps. The Silicon Valley tech giant says it will no longer keep your Google Maps location history, instantly giving you – and ...

Google Maps has recently started collecting data from dashcams specifically to improve navigation by "detecting and verifying real-world changes." The company never talked about this system publicly, ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Update, March 8, 2025: This story, originally published March 7, has been updated with details of more data that Google has confirmed it will be deleting unless account holders take swift action to ...

The problem with Google Maps comes down to its design. It’s an online-first app that depends on constant data to update ...