Google Enters Into $391.5 Million Settlement for Deceptive Location Tracking Practices

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In the biggest privacy settlement by states in U.S. history, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, along with 39 other state attorneys general, announced an historic $391.5 million settlement with Google over its location tracking practices following charges that Google 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 the agreement was the biggest internet privacy settlement. It capped a four-year investigation into the internet search giant’s practices from 2014-20, which the attorneys general said violated the states’ consumer…