Android phones are tracking your location even when you tell them not to

Google, your friendly Internet tech giant that totally doesn’t know everything about you, has been secretly tracking Android users’ locations even when they’ve opted out of location service tracking. 

Quartz first discovered the suspect location collection on several Android devices and Google confirmed to the website it was only doing so to “further improve the speed and performance of message delivery.” Google says it will discontinue the practice by the end of this month.

According to Quartz, Android phones have been recording cellular addresses (or “Cell ID codes” as Google calls them) from cellular towers even if users have disabled the “location services” setting that accesses the GPS to pinpoint where the device has been. Read more…

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