Google has agreed to pay a record $392 million to 40 US states after it was accused of deceiving users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings as the search engine continued to collect this type of information.
The New York Times reports it.
Forty state attorneys general signed the agreement with the Google search engine for violating localization practices for mobile devices, deceiving consumers, transforming them into recipients of advertising addressed and linked to the places where they were.
According to state attorneys general, this is the largest Internet privacy settlement in the United States.
According to the agreement, adds the New York Times, Google will have to clarify the procedures on tracking the position starting from 2023.