A lawsuit accuses Google of “the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users via its Android mobile operating system and mobile apps” The lawsuit was sparked by an Associated Press report that some Google apps tracked and time-stamped users’ locations even if a user deactivated the “location history” setting. Google has revised its explanation of what happens when you turn off Location History. Princeton’s Jonathan Mayer says he doesn’t think Google was acting maliciously, but rather that it had described what it was doing – or not doing – very poorly.”]
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