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Personally I'm waiting for a report showing that Google still swipes the location in some ways even when ‘location history’ and whatever the other toggle is, are both turned off. Because of course they do.

Reminder: US police use Google as a database of people who were at a particular place at a certain time. Of which people by definition most aren't subjects of investigation: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/technology/google-sensorv...



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