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Google Sued Over Misleading Location Tracking Setting

Napoleon Patacsil filed a lawsuit against Google last week, accusing the company of violating his privacy by secretly tracking his phone’s location despite his account setting through which he explicitly forbade the company to do so. The lawsuit alleges that Google intentionally misled users to believe they wouldn’t be tracked at all by setting the “Location History”” feature to “”Off”” Google responded to the scandal by modifying the text used on the dashboard

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