"Lying" is an extremely strong word here. Usually it's more like "the situation is more complex than this story says". > If you have web and app activity off t

"Lying" is an extremely strong word here. Usually it's more like "the situation is more complex than this story says". > If you have web and app activity off this is probably not true and the AP is lying. However in this case this is absolutely true, and Google recently lost a lawsuit in Australia over it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/australia-rules-google-misled-android-users-about-location-history/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/australia-rules-goog... As the article it self says, Google collects and stores location from a number of different sources, and this setting only affected one of them. There are other lawsuits ongoing: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/did-google-violate-users-privacy-when-it-secretly-kept-location-data/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/did-google-viola... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/unredacted-suit-shows-googles-own-engineers-confused-by-privacy-settings/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/unredacted-suit-...