Google's location tracking services are the subject of lawsuits in Texas, Washington D.C., Indiana and Washington state.
The lawsuits, filed in January, claim Google tracked users for years, often after users specifically turned off 'Location History' or similar features.
Google, for its part, has maintained it is acting in good faith, and that its data collection techniques are only used to improve the consumer experience. The company pointed to recent changes which limit the amount of location data is stored by default for new users. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, whose office filed suit against Google in January, said that 'monetary damages' are not necessarily the point of his legal action."Google knew that consumers had rights under laws, and even under their own policies, to not be tracked in terms of their data. The company made it very difficult for consumers to make that choice, or to indicate to Google that they didn't want to be tracked.
"Companies make the flow of an interaction between a user and a provider so convoluted that the user ends up making a decision that goes against their original objective."The California Consumer Privacy Act was amended in March 2021 to ban websites from using dark patterns that impede"a consumer's choice to opt out."
"I'm not entirely sure if a fixed federal legislation is the silver bullet solution to this problem," Behzadan said. Rokita said his investigators are looking into other possible legal actions against Big Tech companies over their actions in the marketplace of ideas."But we're also consumers of political information.
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