US states win case for privacy
Google will pay $391.5 million to settle a location tracking lawsuit brought against it by 40 US states that claimed the big data behemoth continued surveilling consumers' movements even after these users explicitly told the Chocolate Factory to stop tracking them.The payout represents the largest multi-state privacy settlement in US history, according to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson who led the lawsuit.
In addition to paying the states nearly $392 million, Google also agreed to take several measures to make it easier for users to turn off location tracking and delete their past data, plus promising to be more transparent about what types and sources of location information it collects.], does not admit to any wrongdoing or violating any laws.
"Consistent with improvements we've made in recent years, we have settled this investigation which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago," Google spokesperson José Castañeda told
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