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What is "App Activity tracking"? I know how to turn "Location Services" on and off. I know how to turn "Location History" on and off, as well as use Google's

What is "App Activity tracking"? I know how to turn "Location Services" on and off. I know how to turn "Location History" on and off, as well as use Google's interface to delete my current history. I can't find anything on Android "App Activity tracking". But we're specifically talking about having "Location Services" on, but "Location History" off, that's what the article suggests is being recorded and available for warrant anyway. Since the posts at the top of the thread was suggesting deleting your "Location History" data -- but the article seems to suggest that if you still have "Location Services" on, it's still recording you and available for warrant. I don't think there is any reporting that standard Android/Google record you available for warrant if "Location Services" is turned off though. It definitely makes it more confusing that there are several different settings/services, each of which may be called slightly different names in slightly different places, and it's not always clear how they interact with regard to what information Google is actually recording. That is part of what's making this conversation confusing and I'm not sure we're all talking about the same things when we think we are. "App Activity tracking" is a term that's confusing me. Do you mean this as a synonym for "Location History" and/or "Location Services", or is this a separate thing?

slownews45 5y ago
Location services is the device level control. You can pick which devices pump locations out and turn it off entirely for a device if desired. Google only tracks location from a device if you give them the OK (most do for maps / weather etc). Then they use that location to communicate with their servers and serve you the data you want that is location based. This location (and they enrich it with wifi stuff etc) is available to all apps on your device that have permission to use it plus all server they connect with that use it. Separately for google apps themselves you can go here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 Because they will track location at app level across both play and ios etc. So even if you are on a device WITHOUT location service, google may still be getting your location data through an app on the device.

slownews45 5y ago

Location services is the device level control. You can pick which devices pump locations out and turn it off entirely for a device if desired. Google only tracks location from a device if you give them the OK (most do for maps / weather etc). Then they use that location to communicate with their servers and serve you the data you want that is location based. This location (and they enrich it with wifi stuff etc) is available to all apps on your device that have permission to use it plus all server they connect with that use it. Separately for google apps themselves you can go here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 Because they will track location at app level across both play and ios etc. So even if you are on a device WITHOUT location service, google may still be getting your location data through an app on the device.