FTC Hits Pair of Data Brokers for Unlawfully Tracking and Selling Consumer Data December 4, 2024 By Chad Hemenway The Federal Trade Commission said it has issued an order prohibiting data brokers Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics from selling consumer...
Google to Pay District of Columbia $9.5M for Location Tracking, Privacy Violations January 4, 2023 District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine, in one of his last steps before leaving office, announced that Google...
Google to Pay About $400 Million to Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuit November 14, 2022 By Diane Bartz and Alexandra Alper Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked...
Arizona Judge Rules Google Should Face Jury in State’s Location Privacy Lawsuit January 26, 2022 By Paresh Dave Allegations that Alphabet Inc.’s Google deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury, an...
Three States, D.C. Sue Google Claiming Location Tracking Violates Users’ Privacy January 25, 2022 By David Shepardson and Doina Chiacu Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday over what they called deceptive...