Google to pay $9.5 million to resolve Washington DC location tracking suit

Dec 31 2022 by Mashable

 

Google has to pay out big after it settled a lawsuit for allegedly "deceiving users and invading their privacy" in Washington, D.C.

Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine — who also recently won a settlement against Grubhub — accused Google of violating the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act and employing "dark patterns," or design choices that are meant to trick users into doing things that don't benefit them, like turning on location tracking.

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