Especially nowadays I read everything I agree to.
You can. At least most of it.But then I've always assumed that you can reverse all what you agreed upon by fine-tuning e.g. the google settings afterwards, which I attempted a few times on my main account, and tried to eliminate all loopholes towards possible sharing/keeping history of my location...
There's settings to disable this stuff.
For me I leave it enabled because the more devices sending in GPS data the better stuff like traffic is going to be.
Now... you may want to disable it if you have a wife and a mistress though as Google now has easily accessible logs of exactly how long you've been at X.
Yup. Has been for a while.N.B. So, you are saying that google traffic is really coming from our cellphones? ... pretty impressive, regardless of privacy issues..
It's a good idea too. Think about it: What other device has widespread GPS access and internet access?
Here's a bit more "conspiracy" too.
I assume you've heard of Pokemon Go and maybe Ingress?
Niantic labs was previously a Google startup. They spun off in late 2015 after Google became Alphabet.
But Google, Nintendo, and The Pokemon Company invested $30M into Ninatic.
Why would Google give a bunch of money to a company for a game?
GPS data. Specifically walking routes.
Now you have a million Pokestops and Portals and people actively walking to each one.
Team that with active GPS data (and a reason to enable said GPS data) this means that they have fine grained paths that actual people take to get to a location.