This whole thing seems to be based on that rather inaccurate article from the other day about not being able to deactivate location tracking on android, despite

This whole thing seems to be based on that rather inaccurate article from the other day about not being able to deactivate location tracking on android, despite it being rather trivial to grab any recent android phone and verify that you can in fact block individual apps, including google maps and the play store, from having location access, and you can also deactivate location history from the location history menu (I honestly don't even remember if it defaults to on but i don't think it does?). If the assertion is that you can't trust these privacy toggles then we're getting into extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence territory. disclaimer: googler, although i'm an iphoney one not an androidy one