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		tgsovlerkhgsel on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Polic... The interesting thing is that from the article, it seems to me like the only data these searches are using is location history, so if that one is off, you should be unaffected.

Macross8299 on April 14, 2019 | [–]

I bet you anything that the "turn location history off" switch is just a placebo switch.

All it does is send the data with additional flag saying that the data shouldn't be displayed to the end user.

godelski on April 14, 2019 | [–]

> so if that one is off, you should be unaffected.

Problem is that you can't turn it off.

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