{"id":1185,"date":"2021-04-16T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-location-data-what-does-australian-court-ruling-mean-and-how-can-i-turn-off-my-tracking-history\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:44:50","slug":"google-location-data-what-does-australian-court-ruling-mean-and-how-can-i-turn-off-my-tracking-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-location-data-what-does-australian-court-ruling-mean-and-how-can-i-turn-off-my-tracking-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Google location data: what does Australian court ruling mean and how can I turn off my tracking history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled users over location data<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever used Google Maps on your phone without fiddling with the location settings, it goes without saying that the tech giant knows everywhere you\u2019ve been. The really bad news is that even if you have previously tried to stop Google tracking your every movement, the company may have done so anyway.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) won a legal action in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/16\/google-partially-misled-consumers-over-collecting-location-data-australian-court-finds\">federal court<\/a>, which ruled that, thanks to a peculiar set-up that required a user to check \u201cNo\u201d or \u201cDo Not Collect\u201d to both \u201cLocation History\u201d and \u201cWeb &amp; App Activity\u201d on some Android and Pixel phones, someone who ticked \u201cNo\u201d to just one would still end up being tracked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/16\/google-tracking-what-does-australian-court-ruling-mean-and-how-can-i-secure-my-devices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e4740a0061f0a3b14987baa538a0601a4b279884\/0_169_5346_3207\/master\/5346.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a55b806e21981c8b941ae3fe614ffd6e\" title=\"Google location data: what does Australian court ruling mean and how can I turn off my tracking history?\" \/>Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled users over location data<br \/>\nIf you have ever used Google Maps on your phone without fiddling with the location settings, it goes without saying that the tech giant knows everywhere you\u2019ve been. The really bad news is that even if you have previously tried to stop Google tracking your every movement, the company may have done so anyway.<br \/>\nOn Friday the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) won a legal action in the federal court, which ruled that, thanks to a peculiar set-up that required a user to check \u201cNo\u201d or \u201cDo Not Collect\u201d to both \u201cLocation History\u201d and \u201cWeb &amp; App Activity\u201d on some Android and Pixel phones, someone who ticked \u201cNo\u201d to just one would still end up being tracked. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google \u2018partially\u2019 misled users over location data If you have ever used Google Maps on your phone without fiddling with the location settings, it goes without saying that the tech giant knows everywhere you\u2019ve been. The really bad news is that even if &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/google-location-data-what-does-australian-court-ruling-mean-and-how-can-i-turn-off-my-tracking-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google location data: what does Australian court ruling mean and how can I turn off my tracking history?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1186,"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\/1185"}],"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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}