The Federal Court has ordered Google to pay a $60m penalty for not telling some Australian users about a data setting that let it use their personal location for targeted ads | hijessicayun and nickbonyhady
The Federal Court has ordered internet giant Google to pay a $60 million penalty for misleading Android users about its collection and use of their personal location data.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, whose agency brought the litigation, said the “web & app activity” setting allowed Google to target ads to consumers even if they had “Location History” switched off. The ACCC estimated that about 1.3 million Google users in Australia may have seen pages from Google that breached the law.
Google, which is part of the conglomerate called Alphabet that also owns video-sharing site YouTube, and the ACCC made a joint submission to the Federal Court of a $60 million penalty in legal proceedings. It is the first public enforcement to come out of the Digital Platforms Inquiry.
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