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> Disabling Location History and not using Maps or other Google location based apps or APIs means they won't get your location. Which is impossible unless you
by kuzehanka 8y ago
> Disabling Location History and not using Maps or other Google location based apps or APIs means they won't get your location.
Which is impossible unless you don't use the phone at all, hence the 3 hour long congressional hearing[1]. Turn off location history, turn off location services, it doesn't matter, your location tracks are being logged.
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue about since you seem agree with the premise. You think the news outlets exaggerated the fact that Google grossly underplayed the language around their always-on tracking and mislead hundreds of millions of users into thinking they're not being tracked when they in fact were? Okay then.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbTbPEEJxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbTbPEEJxI
- shittyadmin 8y agoWhat you seem to be saying is that they're sending location data periodically even after disabling location history. That I believe is false. Any location sending after that is by user or app demand. Achieving this on an Android device isn't impossible by any means: deny location to all apps and those apps won't be able to call the Google Fused Location API. If you want location without using Google's API, allow only select apps which use direct on-device GPS access, it's readily available in the Android API without the need to pull in the Google Play Location Services package.