Google will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit by the Arizona Attorney General's Office over the way the tech giant has used customers' location data.
that some of the company's apps continued tracking and storing users' location data even after they turned off the location history feature.Driving the news:Tuesday morning, calling it one of the largest consumer fraud lawsuits in Arizona history.
The settlement directs the state legislature to spend the money that goes into the general fund on education, broadband and internet privacy efforts.
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