Attorneys general from three states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against Google for allegedly deceptive location data collection on Android.
The complaints, which are based on a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Attorney General in 2020, claim that Google’s “complex web” of settings obscured whether users were sharing their location at any given time. Furthermore, they claim Google pushed Android users to share more information “inadvertently or out of frustration” through “repeated nudging, misleading pressure tactics, and evasive and deceptive descriptions.” “Google misled consumers into believing that by changing their account and device settings, they could protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access,” said DC Attorney General Karl Racine in a statement. “The truth is that, contrary to Google’s claims, it continues to surveil customers and profit from their data.”
