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I'm not buying it.
That means that you're the product
What have google ever done to not trust them?
It's believable. If 25% of the warrants they receive are for location data, there is a shed load of money to be saved by simply not storing it.
Probably simple math, whether or not the stored location data is more valuable than the cost of legal compliance.