States have taken an increasingly central role in reining in the power and business models of Silicon Valley corporations, amid a vacuum of action from federal lawmakers.
WASHINGTON — Google agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general Monday for charges that it misled users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings even as the company continued collecting that information.The attorneys general said that the agreement was the biggest internet privacy settlement by U.S. states.
In lieu of federal law, states including California, Colorado and Virginia have enacted their own privacy rules, creating a patchwork of regulations that artificially begin and end at state boundaries. State attorneys general have also policed tech giants through lawsuits and have settled or have active litigation against Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon over claims of antitrust violations, harmful speech, privacy breaches and illegal labor practices.
In the location privacy settlement, the state attorneys general claimed that Google gave the false impression that when users turned off location tracking services, the company no longer collected geolocation data about them. But through Google’s broad array of other services such as search, maps and apps that connect to Wi-Fi and cellular phone towers, the company continued amassing and storing an intricate history of users’ movements, according to the states.
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State AGs: Google settles location tracking probe for $392 millionThe investigation by the states, which officials said was spurred by a 2018 Associated Press story, found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking.
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40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 millionThe 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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40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 millionThe 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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Google pays nearly $392 million to settle sweeping location-tracking lawsuitGoogle has agreed to pay nearly $392 million in a settlement with 40 states over allegations that it tracked people's locations even when location tracking was turned off on their devices.
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Google will pay $392 million to 40 states in largest-ever US consumer privacy settlement | EngadgetGoogle is paying $391.5 million to settle charges that it misled users who thought they turned off location tracking by continuing to record their movements..
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40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 millionGoogle has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations.
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