WASHINGTON: The newest legal case against Google was filed on Monday in Washington, DC, Texas, Washington state, as well as Indiana, accusing that Google tricked users by accumulating their location information even when they thought that navigation was deactivated.
“Google fooled users into assuming that changing their profile and hardware options would ensure their safety and enable them to choose what confidential info the firm had access to,” says DC Attorney General Karl Racine. “The reality is that, despite Google’s claims, it persists to systematically monitor increase profitability from their personal information.”
Google’s privacy policies, according to Racine, are “bold misrepresentations” that jeopardize consumer privacy. Only after Associated Press reported in 2018 that numerous Google apps throughout iOS and Android logged location data also when users picked privacy controls that specifically said they wouldn’t, his agency began looking into how Google manages user location data. To confirm its results, the AP worked with Princeton computer science professors.
“According to Google’s help page, ‘You can deactivate Location History at any time.’ The locations you go will no longer save when Location History is turned off,’ according to the Associated Press. “This isn’t correct. Even if Location History is turned off, some Google apps save time-stamped location information without prompting.”
