It absolutely is relevant, let's take a moment and review the key point: > I can guarantee you Google protects this data more securely than your carrier does

It absolutely is relevant, let's take a moment and review the key point: > I can guarantee you Google protects this data more securely than your carrier does Part of acting as a company who cares about user's data includes not collecting data that is sensitive. This is especially true with location data, and is extra especially true when you do it anyway without the user's permission. Acting like this proves to me, the end user, that google does not guarantee to protect this data more securely than my carrier. I can see how one could be easily confused by the original comment, but if you take a moment and review it again you'll see it rings even more true now.