Google to pay $60m fine for misleading Australians about collecting location data

The tech giant kept track of some Android phone owners even when their location history was set to off'

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Google has agreed to pay $60m in penalties flowing from a long-running court fight with the Australian competition watchdog over the misleading of users on the collection of personal location data.

In April last year, the federal court found Google breached consumer laws by misleading some local users into thinking the company was not collecting personal data about their location via mobile devices with Android operating systems.

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