Google agrees to $392 million settlement with 40 states over location tracking practices | CNN Business

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Google has agreed to a record $391.5 million settlement with 40 states for allegedly misleading consumers over its location tracking practices, a coalition of attorneys general has announced

The attorneys general described it as the largest multi-state privacy settlement in US history. The coalition, which included attorneys general from New York, Kentucky and Oregon, claimed Google had been misleading users about locating tracking in various ways since 2014.

“Consistent with improvements we’ve made in recent years, we have settled this investigation which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago,” Google spokesperson José Castañeda told CNN Business. The attorneys general opened an investigation into Google after a 2018 Associated Press report that the company “records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

 

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Oh no… google is shady. What else are they doing?

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Google dünya kullanıyor, cezayı ülkelere dağıtması lazım! Adalet tam olmalı!

Just curious who gets the money? Oh state governments do? Sounds like extortion.

Made how much selling the data?

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