The title of the submitted article is deceptive. No countries have accused Google of GDPR violations. Consumer groups in 7 countries have submitted complaints to their country's GDPR enforcement authorities.<p>The title of the Reuters article this is sourced from is more accurate, "European consumer groups want regulators to act against Google tracking". The article can be found at <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-privacy/european-consumer-groups-want-regulators-to-act-against-google-tracking-idUSKCN1NW0BS" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-privacy/europea...</a>
If you're on Android it's possible to completely block the GPS daemon from phoning home, usually to 1e100.net based on my observation. To do this you can install an app called NetGuard from F-Droid and enable service blocking. This app is non-root, and it uses a local VPN to provide an almost impenetrable firewall. Google's GPS daemon hides itself under a process called "1021" block that and enable notifications and see the connection attempts every few minutes to 1e100.net getting blocked—you don't even need to have any Google services enabled to see the connection attempts occurring.
Can any Googlers answer: Does turning off these "history" sliders actually affect the data Google gathers from you? Or does it just mean that the information is hidden from your own account view?
to be fair, it's only a claim. not a case (yet).
The national data protection authorities can now actually look into it and maybe make fines for that. however I guess proceeding could take a while.