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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against Google that claims even if users try to disable location services, Google still tracks them.
Three US states and DC have filed a lawstuit against Google for deceptively collecting user location data and using it for targeted ads.
Washington DC and Texas are among four states taking legal action against the technology giant.
Four state attorneys general are suing Google, alleging that the firm misled customers about when it was able to track their whereabouts. In separate lawsuits filed Monday, a bipartisan group of attorneys general from the District of Columbia, Indiana, Texas, and Washington claim that from at least 2014 to 2019, Google deceived users by leading them to believe that turning off "location history" settings would stop the service from tracking their whereabouts. However, the AGs claim that unless a user additionally turned off options in the "Web & App Activity" area, Goog...
Washington DC and Texas are among four states taking legal action against the technology giant.