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Google settles over its misleading location tracking practices

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Google pays $391.5m and settles with 39 US states over its location tracking practices.

The investigation into Google’s tracking practices began after the publication of a 2018 Associated Press article. In its investigation, the AP had found that “many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google

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