Washington: Texas and the District of Columbia, Alphabet Inc’s . sued Google Monday on what they call deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.
Two other state attorneys general plan to file suit as well as part of a bipartisan effort to hold Google accountable over privacy, WashingtonMILF DC’s Carly Racinethe office said in a statement.
“Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control the company’s personal data,” Racine said.
“The truth is that contrary to what Google represents, it systematically surveys customers and profits from customer data. Google’s bold misrepresentation is a clear violation of consumer privacy.”
Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said the “attorney general is bringing the case based on false claims and old claims about our settings”. “We have always built privacy features into our products and provided strong controls for location data. We will vigorously defend ourselves and set the record straight.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Google reportedly continued to let consumers track their location while users sought to stop it.
Google has a “Location History” setting and notifies users if they turn it off “The places you visit are no longer stored”, Texas said.
Google “continues to track the location of users through other settings and methods that it fails to adequately disclose,” Texas said.
In May 2020, Arizona filed a similar lawsuit against Google over the collection of users’ location data. That case is pending.
Two other state attorneys general plan to file suit as well as part of a bipartisan effort to hold Google accountable over privacy, WashingtonMILF DC’s Carly Racinethe office said in a statement.
“Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control the company’s personal data,” Racine said.
“The truth is that contrary to what Google represents, it systematically surveys customers and profits from customer data. Google’s bold misrepresentation is a clear violation of consumer privacy.”
Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said the “attorney general is bringing the case based on false claims and old claims about our settings”. “We have always built privacy features into our products and provided strong controls for location data. We will vigorously defend ourselves and set the record straight.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Google reportedly continued to let consumers track their location while users sought to stop it.
Google has a “Location History” setting and notifies users if they turn it off “The places you visit are no longer stored”, Texas said.
Google “continues to track the location of users through other settings and methods that it fails to adequately disclose,” Texas said.
In May 2020, Arizona filed a similar lawsuit against Google over the collection of users’ location data. That case is pending.
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