Google Play has a keen interest in tracking Android users as they go about their day, and theres little that can be done to stop it. Security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam found that out the hard way. Even if you uninstall Google Play and/or Google Maps, Google Play’s background service is tracking your location 24/7. Google has acknowledged that the behaviour is a bug rather than a feature: We will be rolling out a fix in the next few days.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/google-play-obsessed-tracking-android-users/