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Google Maps For iOS Updated With Spoken Traffic Alerts

The latest release brings parity with the Android version by introducing spoken traffic alerts, a small but sometimes extremely helpful feature for motorists.

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The app will tell you about accidents, traffic congestion or other incidents (like police in the area) for your route before you start driving.

Google Maps for iOS got a seemingly small, but extremely helpful feature today in an update.

Google is hoping it will. And Google Drive users may also agree as notification may help them save time in avoiding the need to open their email and read the message.

On average, the Android apps they tested shared “potentially sensitive” data to 3.1 third-party domains, while iOS apps connected to 2.6 third-party domains. Is this a simple addition? Given the vast amount of data breaches lately, it’s a safe bet that much if not most of the information collected on you and I is stored insecurely as well, and vulnerable to hackers.

The domains that the data was leaked to included Google.com and Googleapis.com, with 36 percent and 18 percent of apps respectively.

Location – iOS apps were worse, with 47 per cent of the apps sharing location data versus 33 per cent of Android apps. The ability to do this with Google Drive remotely from a tablet or smartphone is the major upgrade in this case.

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Meanwhile, it should now also be easier to request and grant file access from your phone. You can also view files without a Google account, like you can on the web. If you go looking for a privacy-enhancing app in the official stores, you’re sod out of luck unfortunately. Users can now get instant alerts on their mobile devices, and simply tapping the notification will take them to the content to see what a team member sent.

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