Where do you click on timeline on google map? I don’t see a menu. Do you have to have a google account? I believe I never opened an acct.
Google “Google maps timeline.”
Googling suggests that I tap on something. On my google map there isn’t anything to tap. The only control I have to to click on “sign-in”.
There’s a report this morning that FB listens to your phone and texts on android phone. FB denies they do that without your permission. I guess people gave them permission knowingly or unknowingly.
On both your phone and your desktop, the menu is the three horizontal lines in the upper left, in the search bar. Tap that. If you don’t have a google account, you should still get options like “satellite and traffic”, language, etc.
^Thank you. Clicking that just displays traffic and others still no timeline. I have no life 
@OHMomof2 Thank you again for DISCONNECT. It works like a charm. It doesn’t slow down and no ads appear. I installed it on both my laptop and the phone. Armed with DISCONECT and Duck Duck Go, I feel much better.
MomofWildChild: Even so, Facebook shouldn’t be linking me to other people’s telephone contacts.
Regularly delete every single contact under Advertisers you have interacted with (meaning you looked at an ad, or even accidentally clicked it).
It’s profitable to them to do so. That makes advertising on FB more attractive.
Facebook Logs Text, Call Histories for Some Android Users WSJ
I’m glad to see people using DuckDuckGo. Non traceable search engine can be very helpful these days. But as far as FB etc I guess I kind of feel like the horse is out of the barn and it’s overwhelming to this about closing that door.
You can stop them going forward, in a few years, it will become old data. It will be less useful.
“AdGuard looked at 2,556 popular apps on the Google Play store. Of these, it found 41 percent were communicating with Facebook Audience Network. Most troublingly, none of them attained the user’s consent beforehand.”
Stop telling me I knew what I was getting into when I signed up for FB account.
If you can get through the pay wall,
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-technology/why-it-feels-like-facebook-is-listening-through-your-mic/AAB3CF21-F765-4C6A-920A-FB2DA950288E?mod=trending_now_video_4
PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY WITH JOANNA STERNEp.20March 07, 2018
Why It Feels Like Facebook Is Listening Through Your Mic
Facebook May Be Keeping Tabs, But It’s Not Through Your Phone’s Microphone
Conspiracy theorists think Facebook has tapped your phone’s microphone to target ads by listening to your conversations. Truth is, it doesn’t have to. WSJ’s Joanna Stern explains how Facebook really keeps tabs on you.
If you can’t get through the pay wall on WSJ, the article talks about the same,
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/facebook-denies-collects-call-sms-050739595.html
An interesting question is: will these revelations cause anyone to drop out of Facebook?
I decided to remove Facebook and Messenger from my (Android) phone (even though I did not give either app access to my contacts - they work fine without that). But I am done being tracked by that particular app.
I’ll keep it for now on my home computer and my Kindle, neither of which I use to make calls or send texts and on which i have all kinds of tracker-blocker stuff.
I kept Instagram and yes I’m aware FB owns it.
Dropping out isn’t the only solution. We need regulations telling FB what they can collect and how. How they should make it clear what and if they are collecting. Not “to let your friends know what you are up to, click agree” Rather “how much private data are you willing to expose?” They need to spell out that they will be scooping all your phone calls and texts. Don’t hide collecting data by burying it in apps. In every app, it should be spelled out that they are collecting your data. If we require cigarette companies to print in big bold letters how smoking causes cancer, I don’t see why we can’t require FB to spell out what they are collecting. What a sleazy swindle! To collect your private data to sell, they charm you, " “this lets friends find each other on Facebook and helps us create a better experience for everyone” (a message sweetened with a saccharine cartoon of a figure texting a little heart), " I am getting madder and madder.
My question to experts, Would track blocking programs like DISCONNET stop FB from snooping? I can see using Duck Duck Go would stop Google snooping on your search history. FB seems to have fingers in every app. Does that mean I need to delete every app to stop FB?
^ Same. I’m mad. But like many, it would be hard to leave. I maintain business pages for clients. I used to buy ads for clients too (I shut that down two weeks ago). I keep in touch with far flung family and friends.
Leaving altogether would be tough.
I downloaded my data and checked it out. Other than the Ad information, there was nothing in there that I wouldn’t expect. My contact information was blank.
I have been keeping my Facebook security pretty tight since I first opened my Facebook account, years ago. I don’t give permissions to apps, I have almost nothing visible to “Friends of Friends” or Public, I don’t have my contact information available to anyone except me, etc I guess it has worked okay. (Either that, or I didn’t recognize that there is some data in my download that I should be upset about.)
I’m watching Social Book Post Manager (a Chrome extension) delete all my FB activity and it’s really very satisfying. I got that tip - and others - form https://www.imore.com/how-delete-your-facebook-data
I did have lots of contact info in my data, all from 2015. An older version of Android back then I guess.