Google tracks users who turn off location history
I bought my first smartphone about 6 months ago - a BLU R2.  Really like the phone, and here's how I use it:<p>1. I use puretalkusa.com's $20/month phone plan.  It comes with 20MB of data per month, then throttles.<p>2. Disabled Cellular Data<p>3. Disabled WIFI<p>4. Never setup or signed in to my Google account from the phone.<p>5. Disabled anything that gave me any pause about privacy, including Location services.<p>6. Covered the fingerprint reader with electrical tape.<p>And still, the other day my phone decided to reboot itself in the middle of the day.  I only know this because it played a little jingle.  After the reboot, Location services was enabled again.  Hmm...  I disabled it, but it made me wonder if this wasn't some kind of forced reboot so someone could ping my location.  This has happened once before, in the middle of the night - a good time to find out where someone lives.