Google promised not to save location data about "sensitive" places such as abortion clinics, which some states threaten to sue or prosecute people for going near. It did not make enough change to eliminate the danger.

I am not surprised, because surveillance-based companies will always tend to collect too much data and hold on to too much data.

However, data tends to get duplicated and get stored in various places. The root of the search problem is (1) collecting location data, (2) collecting personal identifying data, and (3) identifying return visitors (with cookies).

An acceptable web service must not find out any of those facts about you unless you request to send them. And it must do its job even if you choose _not_ to send them.

See surveillance verses democracy.