The exploit was always there, you just didn't know about it, but attackers might have. The only thing that changed is that you're now aware that there's a vulnerability.
The fascist government won't need you to enable tracking, they can have the corporation that makes your OS silently gather it and give it to them, or simply have the phone carrier do it, again silently to the one carrying the device.
We're already all carrying a tracking device with us, willingly.
Why would she not work there, no company is perfect. Plus working there provides her with a particularly good insight when it comes to criticizing Google.
This is why so many of us look down on the US and their ease of firing people that don't buy into the groupthink.