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Maps 5.1 for Android: Google users automatically checked Latitude

Google has updated the mobile version of its Maps service for Android Maps to version 5.1. Effective immediately checked the tracking service integrated Latitude users without their intervention in a place.

Who the automated check-in is activated, in his ways at certain locations marked and logged off, if he moves away. According to Google, this possibility is “100 percent opt-in”. You can also set for individual sites. Some users report, however, that the option is enabled, even without their consent – Future Zone suspects a software problem.

Google goes one step further so as competitors like Facebook with his employer Places, Gowalla or Four Square. This offer to date, only manual check-ins.

With version 5.1 of Maps for Android users can sign up for automatic check-ins (Image: Google).

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