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According to recent unredacted documents relating to a lawsuit, Google once made it difficult for Android users to hide their location data.

| Note to IT: Google really wants its privacy settings left alone It's deeply unsurprising that newly-released information from the Attorney General's office for Arizona — released when a judge agreed to unseal some of the data — shows Google trying to hide privacy settings and tracking users after they chose to not be tracked. The biggest difference in business models between mobile giants Google and Apple is that Apple sells hardware and software whereas Google sells information. So when Apple makes a big play out of protecting privacy—such as pushing back against encryption b...

Unredacted court documents from Arizona’s antitrust lawsuit against Google make embarrassing reading for the Android maker.

Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, made popular privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings ...