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The Australian Federal Courtroom has dominated that Google misled Android customers over its assortment of location knowledge. This ruling is in reference to the “Location Historical past” controversy from a number of years in the past. The Related Press reported on the time that turning off the Location Historical past setting doesn’t disable all location-tracking options throughout each Google product.
The Australian Competitors & Client Fee (ACCC) introduced the case in opposition to Google. The regulatory physique’s press launch states that from January 2017 to December 2018 (the AP article was printed in August 2018), “Google misrepresented that the ‘Location Historical past’ setting was the one Google Account setting that affected whether or not Google collected, saved or used personally identifiable knowledge about their location.” The ACCC continues, saying, “In actual fact, one other Google Account setting titled ‘Net & App Exercise’ additionally enabled Google to gather, retailer and use personally identifiable location knowledge when it was turned on, and that setting was turned on by default.”
With the courtroom’s discovering of wrongdoing, it is not clear what the Australian authorities plans to do in regards to the state of affairs but. The press launch says, “The ACCC is searching for declarations, pecuniary penalties, publications orders, and compliance orders. This will probably be decided at a later date.” ACCC Chair Rod Sims added, “Along with penalties, we’re searching for an order for Google to publish a discover to Australian customers to higher clarify Google’s location knowledge settings sooner or later. It will be sure that customers could make knowledgeable selections about whether or not sure Google settings that… accumulate location knowledge must be enabled.”
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