$710$ points

Google collects information about its customers with the stated purpose of creating a better personalized experience. Locations, web pages visited, items purchased, and music listened to are just a few of the items it collects as a top global digital advertiser. According to Dr$.$ Douglas C$.$ Schmidt of Vanderbilt University $(2018),$ a stationary Android phone with Chrome open can communicate the phone's location to Google over $340$ times in $24$ hours even if the user is not actively using the phone. What type of data collection is this?