Google Deliberately Made It Difficult For Android Users To Find Privacy Settings: Report

Google reportedly made it difficult for users to find privacy settings, documents from an Arizona lawsuit against the giant have revealed. The documents, accessed by Business Insider reveal that the company’s engineers and executives knew how difficult the company had made it for smartphone users to keep their location data private. Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, it made popular privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings precisely because “users liked them,” according to the documents sourced by Business Insider. Further, a Google senior product manager in charge of the location services didn’t know how the company’s complex web of privacy settings interacted with each other.