ISSUE 46 • ANDROID ADVISOR 83FEATUREissue. We want out kids to watch Big Bird, not ... oh,
you get the idea.Miss: Location spying in Android
Those Android users who want to keep Google from
spying on their whereabouts have always been able
to switch off the location services toggle. But an
investigation by Quartz revealed that Google has
been using cellular antennas to spy on Android users’
location even if they switched location services
off. Google says it was all part of a test to deliver
messages quicker and was all “don’t worry we’re not
even looking at the data,” but conveniently it forgot
to remove the code until called out in public. OK,
Google, tell me another one.Google was tracking
your location in 2017
whether locations
services was on or not