The Federal Trade Commission said it has issued an order prohibiting data brokers Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics from selling consumer data without consent—including location information related to visits to healthcare facilities, places of worship, and participation in protests. According to …
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine, in one of his last steps before leaving office, announced that Google will pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that it deceived and manipulated consumers to gain access to their location data, …
Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney general’s office said Monday. The investigation and settlement, which was led by Oregon and Nebraska, …
Allegations that Alphabet Inc.’s Google deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury, an Arizona judge ruled on Tuesday, refusing to toss out a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. Google had sought …
Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday 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 …
