Re: Google timeline/location services

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

Apparently our history will no longer be available after December 8
unless we do SOMETHING.  The concept as well as the solution are
glaringly unclear.
 
Supposedly unless I do SOMETHING I will (a) have no location
timeline/services/history;  (b) have no timeline/location
services/history on my computer;  (c) have no location
timeline/services/history on any of my devices except <something>; (d)
all of the above;  (e) none of the above.
 
The instructions given were in no way applicable to my computer and I
can't find the email warning now.
 
I chose to backup the location history on my phone to <whatever>. It
seemed to be the only option.  Is that what they wanted?

I have timeline enabled in my Google account, and my smartphone is
registered at Google (so I can login to look at Android apps at
play.google.com to verify the app's manifest says my phone is
compatible). 

I have not yet received an e-mail like you described.  You sure it came
from Google?  Need to inspect the headers, especially the Received
headers, to see from where the e-mail originated.  The Received header
should chain together with the first at the bottom and the latest at the
top.  The 'by' clause of a later Received header should match on the
'from' clause of a prior Received header.  Spammers/scammers will
attempt to insert their own bogus Received header, but those will be at
the bottom (firstmost), and not chain to whomever they actually used to
send their turd.  The Received header is one of several trace headers
added to emails, and it's the mail servers that add it, not clients.