GREENSBORO, NC– Check out this email from a 2 Wants To Know viewer.

Conni writes: Google is constantly gathering information about where you have been. I get notifications asking me if I want to save a restaurant or a store to my timeline. Who gets the information from this timeline?

Can I opt out of Google constantly tracking my movements?

Tech expert Kent Meeker is in to talk all things Google.

“It’s really bigger than Google. In fact, Google isn’t Google any more, it’s Alphabet. Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. So, those companies have your location data (and all the other data google acquires) as well.”

To Conni’s question of, “How is it any of their business where I am…” Kent says, we made it their business. “We wanted it. We agreed to this deep level of data aggregation because we want to use their devices.”

The knee jerk reaction is to turn off all your location tracking. But Kent says in the long run it won’t really make much difference. Either your device or app won’t work correctly, if at all like with Google maps, or they will throw you another push that opts you back automatically. “Odds are, you won’t read it and happily click “accept” to all of the stipulations.”

So., even if you limit the amount of location services, you don’t enable it on all the apps, maybe just maps or whatever, they still know where you are.

“Unless you take yourself off the grid completely, Google has all the data it needs on you and your location and, because Google is so large, you’ll never truly be able to figure out what programs and services are Google or what programs and services report to Google.