Tuesday, 25 January 2022 (YJC)_ Several states have sued the software giant for illegally tracking users' location.
According to Reuters, the states of Texas, Indiana and Washington, D.C., last night sued Google over its actions in tracking users' location without informing them of the software giant.
Washington, D.C. Attorney General Carl Racine said in a statement that Google was deceptively making users think that by changing their account and settings on their smart devices, it could protect their personal information and prevent Google from accessing them.
"But Google systematically records users' personal information and makes a profit from it," he said.
The Washington, D.C. prosecutor's office said the move was a gross violation of users' privacy.
Google spokesman Jose Castanda said in a statement that the Washington, D.C.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has also accused Google of continuing to record users by misleading users even when they try to block their location.
In its settings, Google has provided users with location registration history and has notified users that their location information will no longer be registered if they disable this part of the settings.
The Texas prosecutor, however, says that even when these settings are disabled, Google will continue to record users' location information.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson also said that Google earned $ 150 billion from its advertising space in 2020, which made it very important for users to have a location for Google's more targeted advertising. In May 2020, the state of Arizona filed a similar lawsuit against Google.
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