Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the location tile and all location services will turn off.
There's a master switch it's just not what the AP decided it was.
Re:Google Data Collection research
by convivialdingo on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:19PM
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Even that seems to get periodically re-enabled on my Galaxy S7 without my permission. I reasonably expect that if I launch an app that requires location to get asked for it, but in my experience the system level software is collecting it anyway, perhaps traffic mapping?
Given Samsung, I wouldn't be surprised if that issue was related to their software. There's just so much going on in Android, and so much third party software, that you really can't assume much anymore.
Do you work for Google?
Re:Google Data Collection research
by digitaLandscape on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:41PM
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I do and the only time you'll get a straight word from leadership is when Sergey appears on stage drunk (which is often. dude has a problem). The rest are consistently awful.
Because that's the line they sold us inside the company when we complained that it was now asking for broad permissions too often. "It's broad, but it's all controlled in one place now."
If they're now claiming that users are confused and that's not what it means, well, fuck Google management. They don't give a damn. They'll lie to their employees, and they'll lie to their users.