Fitbit app ignoring privacy settings.

I noticed the Fitbit app was showing the music I was playing and allowed me to manage the music. When I set up the app, I turned that feature off. I tried to turn that off again and found I could not disable that feature. Weird, right?

After reading today that Google purchased Fitbit, I decided to do some checking. I found that the Fitbit app now ignores the privacy settings on my phone. The app tracks my location regardless of the setting - Never, Ask Next Time (the app does not ask when this is set), or While Using the App. What this looks like is a brazen privacy violation and suggests that Fitbit has already sold out its users to Google. My greater concern is why IOS is allowing an app to misbehave. There are plenty of anecdotal stories about apps harvesting user data, but shouldn’t IOS absolutely, positively prevent this from happening?