Google will pay N.J. and 39 other states $392M in massive settlement over location tracking
Google will pay nearly $391.5 million to authorities in 40 states, including New Jersey, to resolve allegations it misled consumers over how it tracked, recorded and shared their device location data.finding Google’s mobile services stored location data even when users selected privacy settings claiming to prevent the company from doing so.
The AP report, which relied on expertise from computer science researchers at Princeton University, found the company was keeping more information that it told consumers, a privacy breach affecting two billion Android phone users and hundreds of millions of iPhone users.
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