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Attorneys general from the District of Columbia and three states sued Google on Monday, claiming the search giant misled consumers to gain access to their location data. The lawsuits from D.C., Indiana, Texas and Washington allege Alphabet Inc.’s Google GOOGL, -4.18% GOOG, -3.88% deceived users from at least 2014 to 2019 by leading them to believe that turning off “location history” settings would stop tracking… 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

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

If you ever feel like websites have turned the simple business of rejecting tracking cookies into a labyrinthine task that involves close-reading of multiple dialog boxes, then France’s data protection agency has your back. The watchdog (CNIL) has fined Google €150 million ($170 million) and Facebook €60 million ($68 million) for making it too confusing for users to reject cookies. The companies now have three months to change their ways in France. With Facebook, CNIL notes that in… Source link

As a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, Brian Murphy got a close look at the failures ahead of the insurrection at the Capitol. His 26-year career at DHS and at the FBI focused on violent extremism and he watched, he said Thursday in a Yahoo Finance Live interview, as those departments failed in 2020 as an early warning system to the emerging threat from then-President Trump’s radicalized supporters. Officials, he says, “were intimidated… Source link

LONDON — French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French users a single button to immediately accept cookies, there wasn’t an equally simple way for them to decline because “several clicks are required to refuse all… 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

As we’re all a bit more mindful of what we share these days, it has forced the likes of Google to be more upfront about what it does and doesn’t know. Location History is supposed to be turned off by default but some other stuff might be being collected. It’s a good idea to check anyway and the best way to do that is through the Google activity area. How to check my Google activity Tracking is actually meant to make internet life easier by knowing what you… 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