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Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States - Slashdot
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Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States
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Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States (nytimes.com) 13
Posted by msmash
on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:31PM from the moving-forward dept.
Google agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general on 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. From a report: Under the settlement, Google will also make its location tracking disclosures clearer starting in 2023. The attorneys general said that the agreement was the biggest internet privacy settlement by U.S. states. It capped a four-year investigation into the internet search giant's practices from 2014-2020, which the attorneys general said violated the states' consumer protection laws. Google said it had already corrected some of the practices mentioned in the settlement. "Consistent with improvements we've made in recent years, we have settled this investigation which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago," said Jose Castaneda, a spokesman for the company. 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.
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