MediaPost reports Google agreed to settle complaints to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California regarding alleged harms with the company's COVID-19 contact-tracing application. Android users claimed the Google-Apple exposure notification practices for the app violated the California Consumer Privacy Act and state law on medical information. Among its arguments, Google said the system would not show that any outside parties accessed complainants' private information.
4 March 2022
Google settles COVID-19 contact tracing app claims
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