Google shows you exactly where you were and when. Soon the government will know this too.
If politicians talking about metadata storage bore you to tears, perhaps you'd be interested in seeing how the tedious talk translates into reality? Thanks to Google, we can see exactly what's in store for all Australians because it's been doing this - often without people knowing - for years already.
For many people in Australia, clicking the following link will make them gasp.
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/1/
For the increasingly few of us who haven't used a Google account on a smartphone (or who currently haven't signed in), what you'd be looking at is your Location History plotted on a map. Unless you've actively taken steps to stop it, Google has been automatically recording of your location every 45 seconds and time stamping each coordinate.
This is what mine looks like for the past 30 days:-
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It's amazingly easy to search where you were on which day: there's a
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