California settles with Google over location privacy practices for $93 million

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California settles with Google over location privacy practices for $93 million
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The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Search giant Google has agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over the its location-privacy practices.

The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.”

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