** #10 No matter what phone you use, Google tracks and stores your location — even when you explicitly tell it not to, an investigative report published by the Associated Press has found. You can turn off ‘location history’ or ‘location services’ on your phone, but Google is still tracking you all day long through its weather apps, maps and your search history. Search for “chocolate chip cookies” and the tech giant will “pinpoint your precise latitude and longitude — accurate to the square foot — and save it to your Google account.”
Want to make it stop? Click here and let Wired walk you through how to disable it from deep inside a Google account page you probably didn’t even know you had.