Google Still Stores Location Data Even if Users Opt Out

Billions of phones could be affected

Users of Google’s Android mobile phone operating systems and some Google apps on iPhones are having their location data tracked and recorded, even if users opt out of being tracked, an investigation from the Associated Press found Monday.

Google offers users a setting called “Location History” that records a Google user’s location over time on a geographic map. The opt-in feature can be “paused,” which Google says makes it so “the places you go are no longer stored.”

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