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As #CPDP2022 was about to start, I visited the conference location to try to better understand how Google (and others!) might be tracking participants
As an "aside", Google is a Platinum sponsor at the conference
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As an "aside", Google is a Platinum sponsor at the conference
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So, let's dig in! The day before, May 20th, I went near the venue with Semantic Location History activated. That gives me a glimpse at the infrastructure of surveillance Google is leveraging.
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When I takeout my Google data (and visualize it a bit more with tools developed during the #digipower investigation), I see that Google knows I was there, with 70% confidence and for 565 seconds. 
