While there are completely benign reasons for Google to track your location-such as recommending nearby restaurants or giving you an accurate weather report-Google also uses the information to more accurately advertise against where you are and what you’re doing. Shankari, a University of California, Berkeley computer science graduate student, which called out the search giant’s “background data collection” practices that log user information without explicit consent. The AP investigation was inspired by a blog post from K. If you can’t find Google settings on the phone, you can also go to and then follow the browser instructions.) Quartz tested on a OnePlus 6, a Samsung Galaxy Note 9, a Google Pixel XL, and a Motorola Moto z3 Play and they all followed the workflow above. (Some Android devices may have their own designs that mean the above instructions won’t be exactly right.
Tap Google Account (Info, security & personalization). Scroll down to My Activity, which will open your settings in a web browser. 
Tap Manage your Google Account and then Personal info and privacy. 
Tap on your Google Account (in the left hand navigation bar). Scroll down and toggle Location History off as well. In the left hand navigation bar, click Activity Controls, where you’ll see Web & App Activity. Go to Personal Info & Privacy and choose Go to My Activity. Sign in to your Google Account in the upper-right corner of your browser. Though Google insisted that “users have the controls to edit, delete, or turn off at any time” in an email to Quartz, finding the controls to actually stop the company from tracking your location is less than intuitive. “It does not stop Google’s collection of other location markers.” “Leaving ‘Web & App Activity’ on and turning ‘Location History’ off only prevents Google from adding your movements to the ‘timeline,’ its visualization of your daily travels,” the AP reported. In order to actually turn off location tracking, users must navigate to a little-known setting called Web & App Activity. The AP report found this not to be the case. When you turn off Location History for your Google Account, it’s off for all devices associated with that Google Account.” The Google support page for managing your Location History says that once you turn it off, “the places you go are no longer stored. The report confirms earlier investigations from Quartz which showed how the location data Google collects is rarely made clear. 13, the search giant may continue to track your every move when you turn off Location History, a setting on Android phones and within apps like Google Maps on other devices that controls the company’s access to your location information. Google tracks your location-even when you tell it not to.Īccording to an Associated Press investigation published Aug.
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