{"id":1181,"date":"2021-04-16T01:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:37:34","slug":"google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked \u2018No\u2019 or \u2018Do not collect\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Google has been found to have \u201cpartially\u201d misled Australian consumers about collecting their location data, according to a federal court ruling handed down on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that Google continued to collect \u201cLocation History\u201d and \u201cWeb &amp; App Activity\u201d on some Android and Pixel phones, even for customers who ticked \u201cNo\u201d or \u201cDo not collect\u201d on their settings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/16\/google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f68c64f21462b3ed1562bf46dcba564b5b6414b\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=616d917842b39da49093ddeda4c0dc9d\" title=\"Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds\" \/>Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked \u2018No\u2019 or \u2018Do not collect\u2019<br \/>\nGoogle has been found to have \u201cpartially\u201d misled Australian consumers about collecting their location data, according to a federal court ruling handed down on Friday.<br \/>\nThe court found that Google continued to collect \u201cLocation History\u201d and \u201cWeb &amp; App Activity\u201d on some Android and Pixel phones, even for customers who ticked \u201cNo\u201d or \u201cDo not collect\u201d on their settings. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked \u2018No\u2019 or \u2018Do not collect\u2019 Google has been found to have \u201cpartially\u201d misled Australian consumers about collecting their location data, according to a federal court ruling handed down on Friday. The court found that Google continued to collect \u201cLocation History\u201d and \u201cWeb &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}