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posted by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the class-located dept.

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: 3, Interesting) by TheReaperD on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:46PM (1 child)

    by TheReaperD (5556) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:46PM (#724470)

    Please, like reading them is even realistically possible. Even if you have the law degree to understand it all, it would take 76 days/year [theatlantic.com] to read all the ones you're subjected to, and are expected to agree to. And, that's the point and why they should be completely unenforceable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @11:54PM (#724474)

    Hell, if you pirate the damn thing, you don't have to agree to *anything*!

    Just by paying for something, you tell them who to nail for accountability.