Even though Google has been focusing on user privacy with its latest Android releases, the company once made it difficult for Android users to hide their location data. According to recently discovered documents, the Mountain View giant previously continued to collect users’ location data even when they turned off location sharing for their devices, and surprisingly, many of the company executives and engineers knew about this.
Furthermore, the documents claim that when Google tested Android versions that let users find privacy settings easily, the company viewed it as a “problem”. As a result, Google went on to put the privacy and location-sharing settings deep within the settings menu.
