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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’  NPR Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Morning After: Google will settle $5 billion lawsuit over tracking Incognito Chrome users  Engadget Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google settles massive $5B lawsuit over improperly tracking ‘incognito mode’ users  New York Post Google settles $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit  Reuters Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit  Ars Technica Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google details its next steps for wiping out Chrome tracking cookies  Engadget Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Masters 2023: Tracking Tiger Woods’ second round at Augusta National  Yahoo Sports Source link

Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing. The cases filed in the Midwestern state and the capital are similar to those settled elsewhere in the US in the last 12 months and center on allegations that Google deceived users into handing over location data,… Source link

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno mayor Hillary Schieve is suing a private investigator and his company after finding a device attached to her vehicle that was capable of tracking its real-time location. The lawsuit, first reported by The Nevada Independent on Thursday, alleges that the investigator trespassed onto her property to install the device without her consent. It says Schieve was unaware until a mechanic noticed it while working on her vehicle. The complaint says, further, that the… Source link

Google has reached a $391.5 million setlement with 40 states, including North Dakota, over its location tracking practices related to Google Account settings. North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley says the state will receive $4.1 million dollars from what he calls the largest multi-state Attorney General privacy settlement in U-S history. Wrigley says the investigation and settlement focused on Google’s deceptive practices regarding data collection, retention, and use.

Google this month agreed to pay out $391.5 million across 40 states, including $12 for Michigan, after attorneys general sued the technology company for being deceptive about their location tracking practices in what experts said is an important win for consumers.  The settlement was a result of attorneys general suing Google for violating consumer protections. The AGs said the company was misleading consumers into thinking their location tracking… Source link

Google Failed to Tell Users That Their Web and App Activity Tracked Location Data NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a coalition of 40 attorneys general, today secured $391.5 million from Google for misleading millions of users about its location data tracking. A multistate investigation found that Google failed to notify users that location tracking services were automatically turned on for web and app activity. Millions of consumers with Google accounts who… Source link