Google resolves 2 further location tracking cases in the US for $29.5 million.
In the US states of Indiana and Washington, DC, Google recently settled two further location monitoring cases for a total of $29.5 million. Google resolves 2 further location tracking cases in the US for $29.5 million.
After the states filed a lawsuit against the tech giant for purportedly tracking users’ whereabouts without their knowledge, the search giant was order to pay $9.5 billion to Washington, DC, and $1.3 billion to Indiana.
The $29.5 million settlement is in addition to the $391.5 million that Google agreed to pay to Forty states last month in response to charges of a similar kind.
DC Attorney General Karl Racine tweeted, “My office struck a deal with Google ordering the business to pay $9.5 million for misleading and manipulating customers, including by utilizing “dark patterns” to fool users and access their location data.
“We filed a case against Google because it was so hard for users to stop their position from being watch. Now that this settlement has been reach, Google must additionally explain to users how their geolocation data is gather, saved, and used “Racine threw in.
In response to claims that it monitored users’ whereabouts without their permission in the US, Google last month agreed to pay a landmark $391.5 million settlement to 40 states across the country.
The largest attorney public consumer privacy settlement ever was reach with Facebook over its location tracking policies under the leadership of Nebraska AG Doug Peterson and Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum.
Along with the multimillion dollar settlement, Google also committed to dramatically enhance its gps location disclosures plus user controls beginning in 2023 as part of the agreements with the AGs.
Google in a blog post that the case was found on “date product policies” that the business already updat.
A new option will allow users to “in one easy move” turn off and erase your location history as well as your site and app activity, according to Google, which also said it will start offering more “specific” details about the data it gathers monitoring during the account registration process.
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