Taxi journey details stored on your phone!!

[Watts.E.Dunn]

Just a warning if you should use you own phone to arranage a Taxi with.

Had a very nice outcall just before Xmas. Called a local Cab firm. All good no problems with that.

Excpept i had to use same firm the other day, and their automated response system came up with the two last pickup addresses one being a hotel in Cambridge it asked me if i wanted a pickup from there then it listed the other destination location!

Now OK for me but imagine if that was the missus borrowed your phone??

Course we all have our punterfone do we not;?.

[daviemac]

Happens with loads of places, When I phone my local take-away they tell me my address to confirm it.

[catweazle]

Happens with loads of places, When I phone my local take-away they tell me my address to confirm it.

Same here. Not just the local takeaway, but the taxi firm auto system runs through an ever growing list of places l have used them from ("would you like to be picked up at Wood Street? Would you like to be picked up at Maple Road? " etc(nb fake addresses for the purposes of this post)

[getsbettereverytime]

Also Uber does this all journey history is stored.

[David1970]

Just a warning if you should use you own phone to arranage a Taxi with.

Had a very nice outcall just before Xmas. Called a local Cab firm. All good no problems with that.

Excpept i had to use same firm the other day, and their automated response system came up with the two last pickup addresses one being a hotel in Cambridge it asked me if i wanted a pickup from there then it listed the other destination location!

Now OK for me but imagine if that was the missus borrowed your phone??

Course we all have our punterfone do we not;?.

Did you call the Cab on your punting phone both times?

[Watts.E.Dunn]

No it was for convenince my personal phone, not one I'd normally use but as there no "her indoors" to look not that bothered!.

[hillingdonpete]

I booked a day room using my Booking.Com app.

A while later when I used the app the booking was still there and there is no way of deleting previous bookings!

Luckily not a problem but not clever.

[myothernameis]

Just a warning if you should use you own phone to arranage a Taxi with.

Google maps does this all the time, mostly innocent when it comes up; did you enjoy your visit to the cinema, but imagine the shock if it came up, did you enjoy your thai massage

[Gordon Bennett]

You have to be very conscious of every aspect of your arrangements on a punt. You need to be mindful of any tech that you use: phone, satnav and such like and any electronic connection or footprint you make with the world: internet, booking systems, chip and pin, speed cameras, ANPR parking enforcement, contactless payments, Oyster tap-ins etc etc.

[myothernameis]

You have to be very conscious of every aspect of your arrangements on a punt. You need to be mindful of any tech that you use: phone, chip and pin, contactless payments,

I would add to this, if you have a punting phone, you still might leave a digital trail, ie when you need to top your phone up, and you use your bank card, in some form you have, unknowingly left a trail, which if trace back from the escorts booking, could be directly linked to your self, so always use cash when topping up your phone

[Home Alone]

You have to be very conscious of every aspect of your arrangements on a punt. You need to be mindful of any tech that you use: phone, satnav and such like and any electronic connection or footprint you make with the world: internet, booking systems, chip and pin, speed cameras, ANPR parking enforcement, contactless payments, Oyster tap-ins etc etc.

Indeed. Only this morning, those nice, non-nosy folks at Google have sent my personal phone a "location history 2019" from some gubbins - as we technophobes say - on my smartphone which "saves where (I) go in (my) private Timeline."

Except that "my Timeline" obviously ain't that fecking private!!  What it is, is definitely an argument in favour of knowing how to switch EVERYTHING off on smartphones!

Fortunately, I don't have an OH so it won't create any domestic problems. Even so, I don't want those folks at Google knowing where I've been punting. It could be a wake-up call for any single punter who thinks that, because he doesn't have an OH, he therefore doesn't need a Punting - preferably, non-Smart - phone.

Be careful out there, chaps!

[Hypar]

I've a good habit of turning the "location" option/setting off on my android phone when I don't require the feature, and if I do need to use the feature(for example, directions using google maps) then I turn it off immediately when I'm done.

This doesn't unfortunately get around the phone being completely unlocatable(inlocatable?) as any communication you make leaves a vague footprint with the mast it's communicating with. So any time a text, call etc is made then it is possible to know the general area the phone was used in still, but that's a lot better than google and co knowing your exact movements at any given time.

Being from the Cambridge area myself, I have a feeling I know which Taxi firms you're referring too, I'm pretty sure they're just trying to provide a good customer service. Seems like a common thing for Taxi's to do this across the board though.

[Gordon Bennett]

Indeed. Only this morning, those nice, non-nosy folks at Google have sent my personal phone a "location history 2019" from some gubbins - as we technophobes say - on my smartphone which "saves where (I) go in (my) private Timeline."

Except that "my Timeline" obviously ain't that fecking private!!  What it is, is definitely an argument in favour of knowing how to switch EVERYTHING off on smartphones!

Fortunately, I don't have an OH so it won't create any domestic problems. Even so, I don't want those folks at Google knowing where I've been punting. It could be a wake-up call for any single punter who thinks that, because he doesn't have an OH, he therefore doesn't need a Punting - preferably, non-Smart - phone.

Be careful out there, chaps!

Thing is with timeline is you can switch it off or delete/disable Google Maps. Personally, I prefer to just understand how it functions and work it to my advantage.... You can delete or amend your timeline as much as you like and insert a completely fake itinerary. I over-wrote the location of my last punt to show I was at an art gallery for that hour..... According to Google Maps I'm a sophisticated connoisseur of the arts, not a pervert!

[adamwestbb]

- Google maps records every journey you have been on

- Google records every search ever run, be it browser or maps, even youtube!

- Most car based savs keep a history

- Hotel booking apps keep a history (unless you logged in using another account)

- Uber and similar keep journey history

- Facebook may occasionally detect phones in the vicinty and recommend friends (unlikely). Its usually because you have stored/called a WG from a phone that has your facebook on it

- Facebook has a forgot your password feature whereby if you enter your mobile number (assuming you linked it) then it will show your name and photo. Try it External Link/Members Only

Thank you, goodbye 

[fallentrees1321]

Indeed. Only this morning, those nice, non-nosy folks at Google have sent my personal phone a "location history 2019" from some gubbins - as we technophobes say - on my smartphone which "saves where (I) go in (my) private Timeline."

Except that "my Timeline" obviously ain't that fecking private!!  What it is, is definitely an argument in favour of knowing how to switch EVERYTHING off on smartphones!

Fortunately, I don't have an OH so it won't create any domestic problems. Even so, I don't want those folks at Google knowing where I've been punting. It could be a wake-up call for any single punter who thinks that, because he doesn't have an OH, he therefore doesn't need a Punting - preferably, non-Smart - phone.

Be careful out there, chaps!

Unfortunately its not an easy fix to just use a punting phone either depending on what you do .

So if I drive to a punt I generally will have my personal everyday use phone in the car but leave it in there when I go in the punt . If this everyday use phone is an android phone with googles location tracking switched on then it will still record having been in the location you parked at . Generally I have all this crap turned off and have done for some time , even before it could have caused an issue whilst punting