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Mobile data locating is not accurate enough to specify you being at a certain address so often 'guesses' to within a fairly large radiusDo you have gps permenantly turned on ?And what does this have to do with your employer ?0
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Personally I think you're overthinking this - just change your passwords (use unique logins for every service you use), activate 2FA, and sign out of all other web sessions. Make sure all details on your email accounts are correct, particularly any recovery options such as phone numbers, authenticators, recovery emails, etc. If you've generated one-time login codes then refresh those as well - basically anything that could be used to compromise your account. If you're particularly paranoid, consider using a SIM with a phone number that no-one knows that you only use for 2FA. This should stop future unauthorized access and kick out anyone who is still signed in using old credentials.
From there the rest of your story doesn't really make much sense to me. There's no evidence of any wrong-doing (eg. fraud) so of course no one is going to bother to investigate. By all means see what Google comes back with, but based on a similar experience I had with Microsoft when I had several unknown login attempts to my email that somehow randomly changed between successful and unsuccessful, I would expect a very generic response that doesn't actually answer your question.
Focus instead on what you can do here, which is taking steps to protect yourself. Don't rely on others to sort out this mess for you.1 -
Duplicate thread on the Techie board: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6176737/google-timeline-privacy-concerns-involving-employer
As I said there, I think you're overthinking this. Focus on protecting yourself. Reading the comments here I tend to agree that it's likely not any fault of your employer and I also don't think the location data is accurate enough to pinpoint with the accuracy you are suggesting, so I'd take it with a pinch of salt. By all means keep an eye out for anything weird going on in future but unless anything actionable happens (eg. you get hacked) then I'd not worry about it.
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Do everything @PRAISETHESUN has said. When changing your password, don't use words, dates, codes or swap parts of your password around (ie: from concerned101 to 101concerned) - use a password generator to create a long password. Here are some links to examples of password generators that I use to create my own secure passwords:-
- Secure Random Password Generator
- Password Generator - LastPass
- Norton Password Generator
- Password Generator - RANDOM.ORG
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poppellerant said:Do everything @PRAISETHESUN has said. When changing your password, don't use words, dates, codes or swap parts of your password around (ie: from concerned101 to 101concerned) - use a password generator to create a long password. Here are some links to examples of password generators that I use to create my own secure passwords:-
- Secure Random Password Generator
- Password Generator - LastPass
- Norton Password Generator
- Password Generator - RANDOM.ORG
Of cvourse though such passwords do need to be kept somewhere as they are not rememberable. That of course could be a weak link.However OP you just seem paranoid. As a start do you have enough technological knowledge to differentiate between what you think is occuring and programs being iffy and often giving odd results? Maybe consider why you think such a think would be occuring and whom it might be (if it is a whom and not just program issues).(But of course you don't want to share anything so.... But just be careful as in these times many companies want to cut back on staff and anyone with odd requests will be out the door first).
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Not sure what the worry is here.....Your account hasn't been accessed as you have 2FA and have changed the PW.
Google Timeline is like any other tech, you are going to get blips.....My Timeline has, on occasions, shown me at somewhere I haven't been and a few times, at locations I had previously visited, but not at the time it said.
If it's making you ill you need to turn it off......Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
A PIRATE
Not an Alcoholic...!0
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