The live service has been shut down temporarily to protect users, but navigation features still work.
The app displays this information by collecting anonymous data from Android smartphones, which shows how busy roads and different places are.Google confirmed the move to the BBC, having told Reuters it took the action for the safety of local communities, after consulting regional authorities.
Data like this has long been used by people involved in desktop detection surrounding significant events.OSINT, or open-source intelligence, involves ordinary people using data available online, such as information about traffic or satellite images, to piece together a picture of what's happening on the ground.
Benjamin Strick, director of investigations for the Centre for Information Resilience, told the BBC that while this information is useful, it's not giving us the full picture. "So that's really tricky, because it can create headlines. It's really important to just double-verify everything and question everything."Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, open-source researchers have been poring over data from a variety of sources in an effort to better understand events as they unfold.
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