Unfortunately you've fallen for their ruse. Location history in Google applications is not the issue. There is a completely different mechanism built into Google's rootkit on every phone, known as Google Play Services. It collects "anonymous" location data through the operation of Google Location Service (GLS) bundled with Android. It's the thing that provides "high accuracy" location.
This is not tied to Google applications, your account, etc. It's in the system software. It is underneath everything and it basically services all location requests from all apps.
Because Google believes this is anonymized data, it doesn't feel that you should have well-labeled controls over it.
To disable this data collection, you must disable "High accuracy location" in Android systems menus.
There's a reason why there is a click-through agreement. It constitutes "consent" in the eyes of Google lawyers.
This data must not show up in geofenced warrants though, the topic of this thread? Otherwise, it clearly isn't anonymized (or it isn't useful to law enforcement requesting the data anyways).
High accuracy location data is not difficult to de-anonymize. Your phone sleeps at your house and goes to work with you, two enormous windows of time that generate huge numbers of 4d points that identify you uniquely. It doesn't even need crazy AI/machine learning.
> This data must not show up in geofenced warrants though
Who knows...the public does not know exactly what Google is required to do to comply with these requests, nor how it implements these "queries". And then there are NSLs, which is a whole other level of batshit-insane secrecy, where Google can't even confirm or deny they've even received a NSL. They only voluntarily offer the number of NSLs they receive annually, not on how many they comply with.
Technical details are important. The public cannot reason about this issue when the players intentionally perpetuate our ignorance. This is by design, and that itself is a gross violation of our human rights. Instead, all we have is vague assurances of powerful institutions who do not have our best interest at heart.
This is not tied to Google applications, your account, etc. It's in the system software. It is underneath everything and it basically services all location requests from all apps.
Because Google believes this is anonymized data, it doesn't feel that you should have well-labeled controls over it.
To disable this data collection, you must disable "High accuracy location" in Android systems menus.
There's a reason why there is a click-through agreement. It constitutes "consent" in the eyes of Google lawyers.