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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google sued in US over ‘deceptive’ location tracking  BBC News Source link

The parallel lawsuits by the District of Columbia, Texas, Indiana and Washington state zero in on Google’s collection of location data, which can be used to target advertising and build profiles on internet users. The DC Attorney General’s lawsuit alleges that since 2014, Google (GOOG) has made misleading public statements about how users can opt out of location tracking. Despite offering settings in users’ Google accounts that promised to restrict location data tracking, Google allegedly… Source link

Washington, D.C., and two states filed new lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.15% Google, accusing it of deceiving consumers by recording their location even after users tried to turn off the company’s tracking. Google falsely told customers that if they opted out of collection of their “Location History” or other settings, Google wouldn’t store the places they went, according to a lawsuit… Source link

Attorneys general in Washington, D.C., Texas, Indiana and Washington state are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers to obtain their location data. Driving the news: The lawsuit alleges that Google uses “dark patterns, including repeated nudging, misleading pressure tactics, and evasive and deceptive descriptions of location features and settings, to cause users to provide more and more location data (inadvertently or out of frustration).” Our thought bubble, via Axios’ Ashley Gold:… Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Four attorneys general are suing Google for allegedly misleading users about when the company was able to track their location. The bipartisan group of attorneys general from the District of Columbia, Indiana, Texas and Washington allege in separate lawsuits filed Monday that Google deceived users from at least 2014 to 2019 by… Source link

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine sued Google (GOOGL.O) on Monday over what he called deceptive location tracking practices that invade users’ privacy. Three other state attorneys… Source link

Where you go, Google knows. Here’s how to stop it from knowing where you are all the time.  Getty Images … Source link

Where you go, Google knows. Here’s how to stop it from knowing where you are all the time.  Getty Images … Source link

It was a routine bike ride around the neighborhood that landed Zachary McCoy in the crosshairs of the Gainesville, Florida, police department. In January 2020, an alarming email from Google landed in McCoy’s inbox. Police were requesting his user data, the company told him, and McCoy had seven days to go to court and block its release. McCoy later found out the request was part of an investigation into the burglary of a nearby home the year before. The evidence that cast him as a suspect was… Source link

Google Calendar already lets you specify your working hours and earlier this year added support for split schedules. Google is now letting users share day-to-day locations in Calendar amid the increase of hybrid work environments. Starting August 30, 2021, you’ll be able to indicate where you’re working from directly on your calendar. You can add a weekly working location routine and update your location as plans change. It’s up to you whether you want to “Enable working… Source link