Google misled consumers over location data settings, Australia court finds

Google misled consumers over location data settings, Australia court finds

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/16/google-misled-consumers-over-location-data-settings-australia-court-finds/

Google’s historical collection of location data has got it into hot water in Australia where a case brought by the country’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has led to a federal court ruling that the tech giant misled consumers by operating a confusing dual-layer of location settings in what the regulator describes as a “world-first enforcement action”.

The case relates to personal location data collected by Google through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018.