Google is set to pay $29.5M in two settlements over location tracking. The company was sued by the state of Indiana and Washington D.C.
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- The company will pay $20M to the state of Indiana and $9.5M to Washington D.C. over its location tracking technology which was considered suspicious by the two states.
- Specifically, this case has to do with the controversy over a decision made in 2018 that Google made to track users' whereabouts on Android and iOS through a setting called Web & App Activity despite turning Location History options off.
- Google was also accused of using dark patterns, which allegedly deceive users into carrying out actions that violate their privacy and overshare information without their knowledge or affirmation.
- The company has been ordered to notify users with Location History and Web & App Activity enabled about whether location data is being collected, alongside steps users can take to disable the settings and delete the data.











