The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California agreed to the settlement terms of Google's location privacy lawsuit that would require Google to pay USD62 million, MediaPost reports. The class-action lawsuit accused Google of storing "location data harvested from some services, including search and maps, even when users have attempted to prevent the data collection."
22 April 2024
Google to pay $62M in location privacy settlement
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