Google Settles Location-Tracking Probe For Record-Breaking $391.5 Million
by Bram Schumer
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.
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