Andrew O’Hara, Apple Insider:
Google updated help center documentation Thursday to clarify its location data collection policies, changes made in light of recent revelations that the firm’s apps and website continue to harvest user information even when a global “Location History” setting is disabled.
Here’s a link to the updated Google help page. Read it for yourself.
“This setting does not affect other location services on your device,
like Google Location Services and Find My Device. Some location data may
be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and
Maps”
Well, no surprise.
FMD ought to work if on even if Location History is off.
Equally, current-time Location Services should keep working, too.
And the idea that search history and maps history might, when you use either and LS is on, save some location data, is not implausible.
Frankly this makes the whole thing seem far more kerfuffle than scandal.