Google to pay $392 million to 40 states!
In the largest-ever US consumer privacy settlement, Google will pay $392 million to 40 states. Here is all the details.
Google has been facing serious fines for some time now. In this context, the company received a new penalty. Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle 40 attorneys general's charges. They said that Google had tricked users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their settings, but the company was still collecting data about where people went. Google has agreed to "significantly improve" its location tracking disclosures and user controls beginning next year as part of the settlement.
Google to pay $392 million to 40 states!
In a statement, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson said, "Google has prioritized profit over their users' privacy" for years. Although Google users believed they had disabled their location tracking features, the company secretly continued to track their movements and use that data for advertising purposes.
The company has faced serious fines in recent years. Especially in a period of inflation and global crises, it is very difficult for the company to pay serious fines, but we can say that Google will not be able to get rid of this penalty. According to the report, Google could still locate a user even if the Location History setting was disabled. Nonetheless, a snapshot of their location was created on their Google account by some applications, such as Maps and Search. The Associated Press noted that although it was possible to delete this data from a Google account, the process was "laborious."
