Google Maps gives you more control from the blue dot

Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it’s offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data. It starts, as so many journeys do with that little blue dot in Google Maps: aka, you... or, your current location at least.

Right now, tapping the blue dot in Google Maps offers shortcuts to save your parking or share your location. This update — …

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