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May 27, 2020 11:59 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/27/21272625/arizona-ag-sues-google-location-tracking-android-allegations
Arizona sues Google over claims it illegally tracked location of Android users
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Google over allegations the company illegally tracked Android users’ location without their consent and even when the location tracking features had been manually disabled, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The suit argues Google kept location tracking running in the background for certain features, like weather and for web searches using its search engine and Chrome browser, even after the user disabled app-specific location tracking. Only when a user dug further into the Android system settings and turned off broader system-level tracking did Google stop surreptitiously siphoning location data, the complaint argues.
Google has found itself in similar c...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/27/21272625/arizona-ag-sues-google-location-tracking-android-allegations
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