{"id":6424,"date":"2022-01-25T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/multiple-u-s-states-sue-google-over-alleged-android-location-tracking\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:37:07","slug":"multiple-u-s-states-sue-google-over-alleged-android-location-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/multiple-u-s-states-sue-google-over-alleged-android-location-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple U.S. states sue Google over alleged Android location tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google has been sued again, this time around by attorneys general from three U.S. states and the District of Columbia (D.C.). The lawsuit alleges<\/a> that Google deceptively collected location data on Android.<\/p>\n

The Verge <\/em><\/a>notes that the complaints build on a 2020 lawsuit filed by Arizona\u2019s attorney general<\/a>. The suit alleges that Google employed a \u201ccomplex web\u201d of settings that made it difficult to tell if users were sharing their location at a given moment. Moreover, the suit accuses Google of pushing Android users to share location data with \u201crepeated nudging, misleading pressure tactics, and evasive and deceptive descriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine accused Google of falsely leading \u201cconsumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racine filed the lawsuit on January 24th alongside suits from attorneys general from Washington, Texas, and Indiana.<\/p>\n

Google denied the claims, telling The Verge <\/em>that \u201cThe attorneys general are bringing a case based on inaccurate claims and outdated assertions about our settings. We have always built privacy features into our products and provided robust controls for location data.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that many of the issues raised in the D.C. lawsuit pull from a 2018 story from the Associated Press<\/em><\/a> that found many of Google\u2019s apps on iOS and Android stored location data even if users enabled privacy settings that claimed to disable location data.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n