Wed Jan 26, 2022 – 4:20 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Three states plus the District of Columbia are pursuing a bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against internet giant Google, targeting the company’s use of “misleading, ambiguous and incomplete” language to get users to cooperate with its collection of their locations and personal data.
“[S]ince at least 2014, Google has systematically deceived consumers about how their locations are tracked and used and has misled consumers to believe that they can control what information Google collects about them,” says the office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, which is leading the suit. “In reality, there is effectively no way for consumers to prevent Google from collecting, storing and profiting from their location data.”
NBC News reports that the Democrat-dominated D.C. is joined by fellow blue state of Washington, and Republican-controlled Indiana and Texas, highlighting the appeal of the suit’s privacy-based subject matter across party lines.
The suit alleges that Google was lying when it told users they can “turn off Location History at any time,” after which “the places you go are no longer stored.” In fact, the complaint maintains, Google still receives data via its Web & App
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