The publication writes that the lawsuit against Google began at the suit of the Arizona Attorney General's Office in 2020.

The state prosecutor's office accused Google of illegally collecting location data from smartphone users even after they refused.

The newspaper claims that Google employees "made it difficult to find popular privacy settings and even forced LG and other phone manufacturers to hide the settings."

The newspaper said that Google executives and engineers knew how difficult it was to keep location data confidential for smartphone users.

The court documents say the company uses a variety of ways to collect user location data, including Wi-Fi and third-party apps.

At the same time, a former employee of the company, Jack Menzel, who was in charge of Google Maps, said as part of his testimony that Google would not be able to locate the user's home and work only if he himself indicated the wrong addresses in the application.

In April, Roskomnadzor threatened to prosecute the American companies Facebook, Twitter and Google if they did not provide information on the localization of databases of Russian users in Russia.