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Yeah, it bugs me that I don't know where I was a year ago but my phone company does.

Can I get that via GDPR? Has anyone tried?

For Android users a more straightforward option is location history, but you should probably turn that off.



Likewise! That was one of the impulses behind working on Khoj -- we have all this data about places we go to, things we do, websites we traffic, but such poor tooling into how to actually retrieve that information right now.

For example, if I stayed at an Airbnb last year in Houston and needed to lookup the address for some reason, I'd be going either to gmail and running some keywords searches ("Houston", "Airbnb"), or going to my Airbnb app.

Really, I want a single endpoint where all my personal data can be made available to me, ideally without sacrificing my privacy. Location's a cool use case.


Might look into some of the tools like novoids Memacs. Notion here is to build tools that push feeds, history data, into Emacs. Using org in your use case with the Khoj tool, could be the "glue" you need to tie it all together. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme.


Why should you turn that off? If you're afraid of being tracked, it's too late, you're already being tracked by your carrier via the IMEI of your phone, without your consent. Location history is there for your convenience so you can relive where you were a year ago.


If you do not understand basic concepts like this, perhaps this isn't a forum where you should interact.


You might want to check the age of our respective accounts.




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