Google reportedly collected location data even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings difficult for users to find, the media reported. According to a report in Insider, unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Google in Arizona state in the US revealed that the "company's own executives and engineers knew just how difficult the company had made it for smartphone users to keep their location data private".

The documents showed that Google "pressured smartphone manufacturers" into keeping privacy settings hidden, because the settings were popular with users. The lawsuit was filed against Google by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich last year, alleging that the tech giant tracked Android users' location without their consent, even when they had disabled location tracking features.