Data gathered from smartphones enables service providers to infer a wide range of personal information about their users, such as their traits, their personality, and their demographics. This personal information can be made available to third parties, such as advertisers, sometimes unbeknownst to the users. Leveraging location information, advertisers can serve ads micro-targeted to users based on the places they visited. Understanding the types of information that can be extracted from location data and implications in terms of user privacy is of critical importance,
Huawei's latest update to its Google Maps alternative called Petal Maps is now out, and it brings with it a very useful new feature. Namely, you can use navigation directions without being connected to the internet. This is live as of version 5.3.0.302. Obviously, to use this you first need to download the maps for the area you're going to navigate through, which you can do using the Offline Map Resource Package.