The company then changed the language describing Location History, and tells users that they really can stop location tracking-but you have to turn off Web & App Activity as well. Internal emails uncovered in a subsequent court case revealed that even Google's own employees worried this was inappropriate. However, in August 2018, Google users learned that the company continued to collect location data regardless of how they adjusted that setting. When you turn off Location History for your Google Account, it’s off for all devices associated with that Google Account.” The description once read: “With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored. Google has a setting called Location History.