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Google faces lawsuits over location-tracking practices

By David Shepardson and Doina Chiacu

Jan 25 2022 6:35AM

From US states.

Google faces lawsuits over location-tracking practices

Texas, Indiana and the District of Columbia are suing Google over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy. "Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy ...

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