Google and many other big tech companies are taking added measures to bolster user safety in the region both online and offline.
on. The company then compares these real-time conditions to historical traffic patterns. Google also uses location data to power a range of emergency warning alerts, like those for incoming natural disasters.
That’s not the only connection there has been between Google Maps and the unprovoked invasion in Ukraine. Last week, reported that researchers have been using Google Maps as an instrument to track the movement of troops and civilians to visualize the Russian invasion. According to, Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, saw Russian army forces moving towards the border with Ukraine through Google Maps traffic before Russia formally announced its assault on Ukraine.
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