[Arnt]

You can trust Google to do what it says, and yes I've seen Google obey robots.txt. You can't trust Google to do what you think is right.

[yazzku]

No, you can't: https://apnews.com/article/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

[Arnt]

I'm a bit in a hurry, don't have time for close reading. Does that article say some Google apps (notably Maps) store locations on your device even if you have configured them to not store it in your Google account? I may miss something, don't have time to read between the lines today.