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  • Google will pay $93M to settle a privacy lawsuit in California for violating consumer protection laws.
  • The company was found to have engaged in deceptive practices related to collecting Android users’ location data without proper consent.
  • Users believed disabling “Location History” would stop tracking, but another setting, “Web & App Activity,” remained enabled.
  • As part of the settlement, Google will improve user-friendly account controls and be more transparent about data collection practices.
  • This follows similar lawsuits and fines against Google for privacy violations in other jurisdictions.
  • Kalkaline@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My friend, this takes Google from being valued at $1.74 trillion down to $1.74 trillion. At that scale, there is no impact. It’s not even a rounding error.