[vunie]

> I think Google is absolutely not at fault here.

Well I do.

If they had narrowed what information they collected to the absolute minimum and deleted it as soon as it was no longer required, then they wouldn't have any information to give.

Information is a "toxic" liability. Google chose to hoard it. They are absolutely liable.

[bagacrap]

Technically the users chose to keep it by turning on location services, which is a specific Google-wide setting that tracks your location. I find it extremely useful so I leave it on. I have asked Google to store my location.

[boring_twenties]

Pretty sure Location History was never on by default for my Google account, I had to explicitly turn it on.

In fact on every new device I seem to have to enable it separately.