"Documents released also show that Google’s privacy policy was crafted in a way to allow applications that had location tracking turned off from using the location tracking information from another Google application that had location tracking on" #privacy https://www.azmirror.com/2020/08/24/unsealed-google-lawsuit-docs-show-its-own-engineers-were-confused-by-privacy-settings/
In essence, Google's privacy policy allowed Google app A to grab location data from Google app B, even if you disabled location services from A but not B.
It reminds me of standard NSA denials on spying in a particular way "in this program" because they use a different program to do that.
