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> Most of this can be disabled simply by disabling Location History

That disables the location tracking specifically for the purposes of location history, but not any of google’s location tracking for other purposes. Who’s to say whether that other data like “was at X when you opened google maps” ends up in the same location database that these warrants are querying?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-location-tracking-turn-of...

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Yes, this is why I said most of what I feel is problematic, you're able to disable automatic location collection but not all location collection.

Your opening maps question is an interesting one, I automatically assume any data that goes to their servers is fair game, so if I'm asking Google to give me driving directions or even open a map and show me where I am (which requires loading map data for the area), I'm clearly making that choice.

I suppose it's possible they could behave better, but once data leaves my device, it's out of my control and I have to assume the worst.

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