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Ok, so the headline is a bit clickbait-y. It's not not everyone who ever watched the video that they are interested in, it's one person they are trying to track down. Still concerning from a privacy standpoint, but it's not like they are trying to say that watching the video was itself a crime.
Thats not the issue.
Its the same as when feds ask google for location data for everyone near a crime at a given timestamp. Its violating innocent peoples privacy in large swathes.
Google stopped giving location data recently. Hope they keep going.
The other comments are justifiably suspicious, but I think what they said they stopped doing was uploading the location data to the cloud. You can only check your history on the device itself rather than the web interface.