Judicial authorities in the capital and Washington have filed a lawsuit in court on suspicion of violating the Consumer Protection Law, alleging that Google, a major US IT company, was illegally collecting user location information through smartphones.
Google argues, "It's a complaint based on inaccurate claims."
On the 24th, judicial authorities in three states, including the US capital Washington and Texas, filed a lawsuit in court on suspicion of violating consumer protection laws.
According to the complaint etc., Google said that if you change the location information setting through your smartphone, the user will not be able to track your location, but in reality it will be set from at least 2014 to 2019. It means that they continued to collect location information even after the change.
The judicial authorities waived the profits and data illegally obtained by the company to the court, saying that they were profiting from the advertising business based on the location information that Google falsely collected from the user, and also compensated for the compensation. I'm asking you to order payment.
In response, Google argues that it is a complaint based on inaccurate claims.
According to the U.S. media, the issue was reported by the U.S. news agency and Associated Press in 2018, and the judicial authorities in Arizona have also filed similar complaints, and the court has filed a similar complaint. It will be interesting to see what kind of decision you make.