it is outrageous invasion of privacy to keep constant tracking records of all locations over long periods of time, yet a user is outraged when they "lose" access to it?! Does a faith in personal access to data stores override any and all opaque backend practices of a massive company? like a cargo cult -- the company will return all of our precious data and we will be made whole

It's my data. I can choose to have it tracked and kept by whoever I want.

Instead of ranting about privacy maybe you should work on privacy enabling tech solutions to user-needs that clearly some people have.