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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Technology
Asharq Al-Awsat

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Google faces lawsuits over location tracking practices from us states - The Untold Story

The Google logo is seen at the Young Entrepreneurs fair in Paris, France, February 7, 2018. (Reuters)

Texas, Indiana 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 allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access," Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine's office said in a statement. "The truth is that contrary to Google´s representations it continues to systematically surveil customers and profit from customer data. Google's bold misrepresentations are a clear violation of consumers´ privacy."

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