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Press Releases 11/14/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Historic Google Settlement Over Location Tracking Practices (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today announced that Connecticut, along with 39 other attorneys general, has reached a $391.5 million multistate settlement with Google over its location tracking practices relating to Google Account settings. This is the largest multistate privacy settlement in… Source link

Tech Attorneys general found that Google violated state consumer protection laws by misleading consumers Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) will pay about $400 million to settle a complaint brought by a group of states over allegations the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, two people familiar with the matter said. The announcement will come as early as Monday, the sources said. The lawsuit, which includes Oregon, the people said, is a sign of mounting legal headaches for the tech company from state attorneys general who have aggressively… Source link

WASHINGTON — 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. 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… Source link

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Monday Harvest Hope announced a partnership with Google.org and Feeding America. Google.org is the company’s philanthropic arm. The partnership aims to immediately deliver meals to South Carolinians in need of food. Another goal of the partnership is to find long-term technological solutions and provide greater access to resources. Harvest Hope said 34 million Americans, including nine million children, are facing food insecurity. The Feeding America network of food… Source link

The Google-mandated switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is fast approaching. Most marketers grasp the GA4 basics, but there are still plenty of benefits and features of GA4 that are worth knowing. While there are many hidden wonders of GA4, I’ve discovered a few noteworthy ones. And since Google Analytics is all about numbers, here are three metrics marketers should know to drive impact when optimizing Google Ads campaigns. What Is A Metric First and foremost, let’s review what a metric… Source link

South Korea lawmakers observe that as broadband is essential for society, so is broadband cost … [+] recovery. getty South Korea National Assembly member and Chair of the Committee for Science, Technology, Broadcasting and Communication, Young-Chan Yoon of the Democratic Party of South Korea and more than a dozen lawmakers from leading parties proposed an amendment to the telecom framework on September 8. A series of hearings have bill held around the bill which mandates no fees but… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and… Source link

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More Texans are turning to Google in search of food banks. “Specifically in Texas, what we’ve seen is a 570% jump in people searching for ‘where to donate food near me?’ said Katherine Williams with Google.org. The search engine found a 90% spike in Texans searching for “food banks open near me.” “That indicates perhaps Texans are looking for resources. So, what we’ve done is Google.org has partnered with Feeding America to help deliver 50… Source link

In late 2018, Apple boosted its development of a web search engine by buying Laserlike, a startup founded by a trio of former Google search engineers to recommend websites to people based on their interests and browsing history. Four years later, Laserlike’s founders have returned to Google, according to a person with knowledge of the move, dealing a potential blow to the Apple team quietly developing search capabilities that might compete head-on with Google’s. At Apple, Laserlike… Source link