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wtf??? doesnt make it any less extreme privacy violation
for 1: record it yourself consciously (if youre not comfortable with that then why are you comfortable with Google doing it)
for 2: there are other solutions, law enforcement isnt an excuse to violate privacy at all, the government is one of the major things we want privacy against
I didn't say it wasn't a privacy issue, just that those are two reasons that some would probably just accept that shit.
Just like most of us accept the spy devices we already use because they allow communication and internet access and only a tiny portion of people go out of their way to try to reduce that (though due to how cell phones work at all, you can't avoid the simple "this is where their phone was at this time" tracking, which might be "vicinity of cell tower" or "about right here" depending on whether any triangulation was involved).