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Google settles location-tracking lawsuit for $391.5 million.
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Google is facing a class action lawsuit in the United States for being accused of secretly tracking users' location data. Earlier, Google has agreed to pay 40 states in the United States 391.5 million US dollars to settle, equivalent to 12.2 billion Taiwan dollars.
According to Bloomberg, this is the largest privacy settlement in U.S. history.
As part of the settlement, Google is also required to remind users when location tracking is enabled and provide the ability to turn it off starting in 2023.
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The investigation was sparked by a 2018 report that revealed how Google secretly tracked the location of users on various services such as iPhone or Android. The lawsuit alleges that from 2014 to 2019, Google misled users that their location tracking was turned off. , but use the data to sell ads.
Google also issued a statement, stating that these practices are in the past and reforms have been made long ago, but new features will still be introduced in the next few months to improve the transparency of user location information, such as launching an easier way for users to close and Delete history of location data.
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