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ARTICLE · 23 NOVEMBER 2022

Google Settles Location-Tracking Probe For Record-Breaking $391.5 Million

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Google has agreed to pay a historic settlement of $391.5 million to end a privacy investigation brought by 40 state attorneys general regarding the search giant's allegedly misleading...

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Google has agreed to pay a historic settlement of $391.5 million to end a privacy investigation brought by 40 state attorneys general regarding the search giant's allegedly misleading location-tracking features. The states argued that, since at least 2014, Google violated consumer protection laws by misleading consumers into thinking they had turned off location-tracking in their Google account settings, when, in reality, Google continued to collect such location information and sell it to advertisers.

The payout is the largest multistate privacy settlement in history.

In addition to the fine, Google agreed to a number of changes designed to make its location-tracking practices clearer. In a press release, Google said that the allegations concerned "outdated product policies that [were] changed years ago," but agreed nevertheless to the following improvements to its privacy and transparency controls, to go into effect in 2023:

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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