> I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off? I'm not sure the original author knows th

> I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off? I'm not sure the original author knows that they can be turned off. ... or perhaps (if I'm being less charitable) the original author doesn't care; they don't want to be asked in the first place, ever (and are a touch naive about exactly how it is Google Maps gets the data it can vend to end-users).