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Google to Pay Over $155 Million to Settle Claims About Monitoring Location Knowledge

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September 15, 2023
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Google agreed to pay $155 million (almost Rs. 1,300 crore) to settle claims by California and personal plaintiffs that the search engine firm misled shoppers about the way it tracks their places, and used their knowledge with out consent.

Both settlements resolve claims that the Alphabet unit deceived individuals into believing they maintained management over how Google collected and used their private knowledge.

The firm was accused of having the ability to “profile” individuals and goal them with promoting even when they turned off their “Location History” setting, and deceive individuals about their potential to dam adverts they didn’t need.

“Google was telling its users one thing–that it would no longer track their location once they opted out–but doing the opposite and continuing to track its users’ movements for its own commercial gain,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta mentioned in an announcement. “That’s unacceptable.”

The California settlement requires Google to pay $93 million (almost Rs. 770 crore), and disclose extra about the way it tracks individuals’s whereabouts and makes use of knowledge it collects.

Money from Google’s $62 million (almost Rs. 515 crore) settlement with non-public plaintiffs would, after deducting authorized charges, go to court-approved nonprofit teams that monitor web privateness issues.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs mentioned this made sense as a result of it was “infeasible” to distribute cash to the roughly 247.7 million US adults with cell units.

Some critics say this sort of settlement, often called “cy pres,” presents little profit to class members.

Google denied legal responsibility, and each settlements require court docket approval.

Last November, Google agreed to pay $391.5 million (almost Rs. 3,250 crore) to resolve comparable allegations by 40 US states.

The Mountain View, California-based firm has additionally reached $124.9 million (almost Rs. 1,040 crore) of settlements with Arizona and Washington.

A spokesperson for Google on Friday referred to a weblog submit discussing the multistate settlement, and mentioned it associated to “outdated product policies that we changed years ago.”

Lawyers for the non-public plaintiffs didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Google generated $110.9 billion (almost Rs. 9,22,100 crore) of promoting income within the first half of 2023, accounting for 81 p.c of its complete $137.7 billion (almost Rs. 11,44,840 crore) of income.

© Thomson Reuters 2023


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