This is from congressional testimony in the past month that hasn't gotten virtually any coverage from the traditional media outlets:
>Hawley pointed out on Tuesday that a user's location is sent to Google hundreds of times a day, even when the phone is not in use. In fact, Hawley said, a user's location is tracked "every four minutes, or 14 times an hour, roughly 340 times during a 24-hour period," even when the phone is not in use.
>DeVries confessed that "location information is absolutely core to making a mobile phone work the way that you want it to work." He said that Google has an "optional service" called Location History that is opt-in and "can collect location over time when people turn that on."
>"But Google collects geolocation data even if Location History is turned off, correct?" Hawley pressed.
>"Yes, senator, it can in order to operate other services—"
Google's privacy head was passing off the location data harvesting as something that is necessary for the phone to function, which is untrue. They are using the devices to surveil on people, which, among other things, allows intelligence agencies to outsource an important task.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-tracks-you-even-when-loc....
The actual hearing itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwyuCtbK3qw