Google to pay $391M to settle Android location tracking lawsuit

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Google has consented to pay 391.5 million USD to settle an android location tracking lawsuit filed by an alliance of 40 U.S. attorneys general.

According to lawsuit, Google swindled Android users and monitored their locations ever since least 2014, even when they assumed location tracking was not active.

Android users were deceived into believing that disabling “Location History” in the smartphone’s settings would deactivate location tracking.

The agreement reached today also requires Google to implement extra user-friendly account control mechanisms and restricts the firm’s use and storage of certain types of location data.

Google will also be required to be transparent with its users about its location data tracking and collection practices.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission fined Google 60 million USD in August for deceiving and obtaining location data.

According to the ACCC, Google has taken corrective measures to address the problems that resulted in these financial penalties by 20 December 2018, with customers no longer being shown inaccurate information implying that resetting location history stops gathering data regarding their location.

Google was also charged 11.3 million USD in November 2021 for aggressive data collection.

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