How to stop location tracking on your Android phone (mostly)

Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the nearby restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue (something that at least one of Google’s competitors has used in its sales pitch).

You probably know that Google can track your location and movements through its Google Maps app. But you may not realize that your Android phone is also …

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