In The United States, Google Was Sued For 'Deceptive' Android Location Tracking.

Google has been sued in the US for collecting 'deceptive' location data on Android devices.

According to the lawsuit, attorneys general from three states and the District of Columbia allege that Google pushed Android users with "repeated nudging, misleading pressure tactics, and evasive and deceptive descriptions" to share more information either "inadvertently or out of frustration."

DC Attorney General Karl Racine said Google falsely led consumers to believe that adjusting their account and device settings would protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access.

Contrary to Google's assertions, the company systematically tracks customers and profits from their data.

The Verge reports that the lawsuit builds on a 2020 complaint filed by the Arizona Attorney General regarding location data collection.

According to the lawsuit, Google's settings "pretend to give users control over how their location data is collected and used.". "Google's misleading, ambiguous, and incomplete descriptions of these settings virtually guarantee that consumers will not understand when their location is collected and retained by Google or for what purposes.

Google said in a statement: "The attorneys general are bringing a case based on inaccurate and outdated claims about our settings."

At the same time, Google has moved to dismiss a US antitrust lawsuit in which Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg were alleged to be involved in a secret ad collusion plot.

Google said that the allegation that we somehow "colluded" with Facebook Audience Network (FAN) through our Open Bidding agreement is "simply not true."