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Strange question re unknown location on timeline.

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  • bingo_bango
    bingo_bango Posts: 2,594 Forumite
    My O2 data has thrown up some strange locations on my timeline. Seems to be where Google thinks the O2 server is located from what I can gather, and that shifts depending on when I use it (mostly London though).

    So are Google tracking you? Absolutely they are.
    Is it for nefarious purposes? Only if you think data collection for analytics is evil.
  • ChrisJJ
    ChrisJJ Posts: 262 Forumite
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    RumRat wrote: »
    It's just a coincidence fed by your paranoia. The DWP couldn't find their own backside let alone track you.
    What was the other address? Are you concerned that it could be a covert location for MI5 checking on why you didn't return that library book in 1989?;)

    Hell, I'd forgotten about that book...

    What's that saying.... Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you :D
  • ChrisJJ
    ChrisJJ Posts: 262 Forumite
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    pappa_golf wrote: »
    DWP , drugged you and took you off for interrogation , expect a nasty letter in the post

    See, now, I bet that happened :eek:

    I'm always in fear of the dreaded brown envelope so no change there.
  • ChrisJJ
    ChrisJJ Posts: 262 Forumite
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    Slithery wrote: »
    Have you ever logged on to your Google account using one of the DWP's computers?

    If so then that may be the cause as they could possibly be routing all their traffic through a different location.

    God, no. Don't think I've ever been in one for twenty years. Long may it continue. Oh, no, it won't continue of course as they're tracking me now :rotfl: I'll be hauled in for questioning as soon as they can get my address right on the letter....
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