NEW: Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states -- including four in New England -- in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced Monday.
Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states -- including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont -- in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S history.
Storing such data carries privacy risks and has been used by police to determine the location of suspects.The AP reported in 2018 that the privacy issue with location tracking affected some two billion users of devices that run Google’s Android operating software and hundreds of millions of worldwide iPhone users who rely on Google for maps or search.
The attorneys general said Google misled users about its location tracking practices since at least 2014, violating state consumer protection laws.
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