Google Play Location Tracking

This report investigates Google Play's location tracking capabilities, even when a user disables location services in other applications. It explains that Google Play services can still collect location data through mobile networks and Wi-Fi, even if the user's location settings are turned off in other apps like Google Chrome or Sophos Mobile Security. The report also addresses common user misconceptions about GPS usage and battery life, and mentions the Sophos Mobile Security app as a tool for locating lost phones. The report concludes by citing research on mobile malware security challenges and cloud-based detection methods.

How Google Play Tracks you even if your other Apps don’t
In today’s competitive environment, Android has become the most demanding software for the
users. It is said that there is a system in mobile phones for the collection of location data which
continuously communicate with more vendors through the mobile network and Wi-Fi. That's
why Google Play store is able to locate users continuously. The users can install Sophos Mobile
Security App which helps the user in continuously locate their own information. It is beneficial
in such a situation if users lose their mobile phones. With the help of this phone they can track
the location of their mobile phones. If users do not want to locate their location, then they can
easily get off the location by going to Google play services and turning off the location (Penning,
2014). But the Google play services app only does not show user’s own location data if user turn
location collection off entirely. In the same way, other apps do not show the location because
location setting is always off on such software like Google Chrome, Sophos Mobile Security.
Also, most of the android users consider that a current update to Google play might cause havoc
with a battery life of smartphones. Most of the users think that turned on GPS may bring virus in
smartphones, but it is not true (Jain, 2012).

References
Jain, A. K., & Shanbhag, D. (2012). Addressing Security and Privacy Risks in Mobile
Applications. IT Professional, 14(5), 28-33.
Penning, N., Hoffman, M., Nikolai, J., & Wang, Y. (2014, May). Mobile malware security
challeges and cloud-based detection. In Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014
International Conference on (pp. 181-188). IEEE.