{"id":1740106,"date":"2022-11-15T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740106"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:33:24","slug":"google-agrees-to-391-5-million-settlement-in-location-tracking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-agrees-to-391-5-million-settlement-in-location-tracking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Agrees To $391.5 Million Settlement In Location Tracking Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-agrees-to-391-5-million-settlement-in-location-tracking-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> has agreed to a settlement with 40 states regarding charges related to unwanted location tracking of customers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The company will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/14\/technology\/google-privacy-settlement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pay<\/a> $391.5 million in a settlement regarding claims that it kept tracking customers after they had shut off location tracking. A group of state prosecutors announced the agreement on Monday, and the attorneys general said it was the biggest multistate privacy settlement ever paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Officials claimed that since at least 2014, Google has deceived users about what times it was tracking them and violated consumer protection laws in doing so. It secretly tracked them when they thought they weren\u2019t sharing their location, and then used the information for online marketers to sell ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The attorneys general said that up until May 2018, the company was even keeping track of consumers\u2019 locations who had logged out of Google applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFor years, Google prioritized profit over the privacy of people who use Google products and services,\u201d Ellen Rosenblum, the Oregon attorney general, said. Rosenblum spearheaded the case alongside Nebraska. \u201cConsumers thought they had turned \u2018off\u2019 their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The company\u2019s location tracking abilities have been a concern across the nation. Google is being sued by other jurisdictions as well, such as Washington, D.C., Indiana, and Texas for allegedly misleading location tracking. It already settled a location tracking lawsuit with Arizona last month for $85 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A Google spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/14\/1136521305\/google-settlement-location-tracking-data-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> NPR in a statement that the strategies the prosecutors pointed to are antiquated and have since been changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cConsistent with improvements we\u2019ve made in recent years, we have settled this investigation which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago,\u201d Google Spokesperson Jos\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the settlement, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/public-policy\/managing-your-location-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> a message on its blog, saying, \u201c[a]s well as a financial settlement, we will be making updates in the coming months to provide even greater controls and transparency over location data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The changes involve including \u201cadditional disclosures\u201d for certain pages and \u201ccreating a single, comprehensive information hub that highlights key location settings to help people make informed choices about their data.\u201d The company will also offer a new tool that lets users shut off \u201ctheir Location History and Web &#038; App Activity settings and delete their past data in one simple flow.\u201d It will also provide more information to users creating new accounts about \u201cwhat Web &#038; App Activity is, what information it includes, and how it helps their Google experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to a settlement with 40 states regarding charges related to unwanted location tracking of customers. \u00a0 The company will pay $391.5 million in a settlement regarding claims that it kept tracking customers after they had shut off location tracking. A group of state prosecutors announced the agreement on Monday, and the attorneys &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1740109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}