Google will pay $392m to 40 states in largest ever US privacy settlement
by Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#65TQ9)
Case is a historic win for consumers after an investigation found the tech company tracked users' location even after they opted out
Google has agreed to a $391.5m settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced on Monday.
The states' investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people's location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called location history".
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