What is unmentioned in the story is how one company has the entire social network of the United States and its grubby little hands. This is one of the main reasons why our freedoms are evaporating.
We need some draconian data privacy laws to reign in these arrogant pukes.
Tho not foolproof, you can adjust all your location type settings [and there are a lot of them, not just in google] and deny permissions where you reasonably can. You can turn them on for specific tasks and then turn them back off.
No need to make it easy for them.