An Associated Press investigation has discovered that many Google services on iPhone and Android will store your location data even if you have explicitly turned off Location History.Google's support documents claim that says "With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored"; however, computer science researchers at Princeton found that was not true.
For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app. Automatic daily weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where you are. And some searches that have nothing to do with location, like “chocolate chip cookies,” or “kids science kits,” pinpoint your precise latitude and longitude — accurate to the square foot — and save it to your Google account.
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