Guess Who Is Also Confused By The Google Privacy Settings You And I Have To Deal With?
Have you ever trudged around the complexity that is the Google Settings menu on your Android phone or while managing your Google account online, and wondering why is it so complex? This revelation comes as part of a lawsuit that was filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in May this year around Google’s collection of user location data. It all started when the Attorney General’s office started investigating Google after the Associated Press published a report in 2018 revealed how Google tracks user location data and how it is difficult for users to understand the options and revoke those permissions. Documents also indicate that Google’s privacy policy made it easy, at least for the Google apps, to collect location data from another Google app on your phone, even if you turned off location tracking for the first one. In fact, even these cherry-picked published extracts state clearly that the team’s goal was to ‘Reduce confusion around Location History Settings’,” Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said in a statement to the Arizona Mirror.
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