Google gathers location data even if location services are disabled
23. November 2017
As Quartz reports, since the beginning of 2017, Google is gathering location data from Android phones, even if the location services are disabled. To do so, Google has been collecting the addresses from nearby cellular towers. With the gathered information Google has access to the location of Android phone users and data about their movements.
Quartz further reports, that according to a Google spokesman, the tower addresses were sent to a Google system that manages push notifications and messages on Android phones and that the collected data had never been stored. It is further said that by the end of November Google will end this practice.
