AP and Princeton University: Google tracks location of users even when they tell it not to

gracchus · August 13, 2018, 2:02pm

Once in a while I use a location spoofing app to place myself at some random location somewhere else on the globe. I don’t know if it actually pollutes their data but if it does introducing a bit of FUD into their system can’t hurt.

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AP and Princeton University: Google tracks location of users even when they tell it not to

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