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Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
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A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Google of invading people's privacy by tracking the whereabouts of smartphones users despite "location history" settings being turned off.

The suit filed Friday by a California man seeks unspecified damages along with class-action status to represent all US iPhone or Android smartphone users who turned off location history in order not to have their movements logged by Google.

"Google expressly represented to users of its operating system and apps that the activation of certain settings will prevent the tracking of users' geolocations," the lawsuit read. "This representation was false."

The suit accuses Google of violating privacy law, and cites a news report last week confirmed by university researchers.

Also at Reuters and Gizmodo.

Related: Google Caught Tracking Android User Location Data

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:12PM (#724380)

    Do we really want to nail Google?

    Geez, this is the quickest way yet of nailing cheatin' spouses or finding the employee you thought was home sick was really somewhere else!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:47PM (#724471)

    Do we really want to nail Google?

    Yes. "Do no evil" quickly changed to "Get away with as much evil as you can before the EU holds you accountable".