Google Settles Arizona Location-Tracking Lawsuit for $85 Million

imdb · Oct 5, 2022

Google will pay Arizona $85 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the tech giant of resorting to deceptive practices to collect users’ location information from their smartphones.

“The settlement represents the largest amount per capita the internet giant has paid in a privacy and consumer-fraud lawsuit of this kind,” says Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

The settlement revolves around how Google can collect your phone’s location to power company services and for ad purposes. The company had been telling consumers they could opt out of location tracking by reconfiguring their privacy settings. But in 2018, an investigation from the Associated Press found that Google can continue to capture the location data, even if the user hits pause on the tracking.
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Google Settles Arizona Location-Tracking Lawsuit for $85 Million By Michael Kan

imdb · Oct 6, 2022

Two years ago, the Arizona Attorney General sued Google for allegedly tricking people into giving up their location data, even after they tried to turn off the company’s location data settings. Google agreed to pay $85 million to settle the lawsuit this week and fix an incorrect description of what its Location History setting actually does. The search giant tried to demystify its handling of your location data a bit. Experts and Gizmodo’s own attempts suggest the company’s success was middling at best and intentionally confusing at worst.
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Google Settings Still Confusing After $85 Million Lawsuit Over How Confusing They Were ByThomas Germain

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