[gerdesj]

You can flip a widget that claims to do something. How do you know it actually does what you think it does? For example, it might simply mean that you no longer have access to your location history - which your experience documented here implies. That does not mean that the data is no longer there or being added to.

Have you read the small print?

Nearly appropriate anecdote: For a customer, the SNMP "public" community has been deemed a security issue. The GUI for three of their systems showed that the SNMP agent was not configured, let alone running. $snmpwalk -v2c -c public w.x.y.z enterprises from my PC says otherwise.

Here we have a saying: "it does what it says on the tin" to imply a form of integrity (a quote from an advert, funnily enough.) Not all tins tell the complete truth.

[Liquid_Fire]

While it's possible that Google may be keeping the data after you ask them to delete it, that would be a violation of the GDPR.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

If they're an EU citizen. The fact that they posted in the middle of the night in the EU suggests that they may not be.