{"id":7869,"date":"2022-11-14T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/14\/google-will-pay-392m-to-40-states-in-largest-ever-us-privacy-settlement\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:39:44","slug":"google-will-pay-392m-to-40-states-in-largest-ever-us-privacy-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/14\/google-will-pay-392m-to-40-states-in-largest-ever-us-privacy-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay $392m to 40 states in largest ever US privacy settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case is a historic win for consumers after an investigation found the tech company tracked users\u2019 location even after they opted out<\/p>\n<p>Google has agreed to a $391.5m settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users\u2019 locations, state attorneys general announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The states\u2019 investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people\u2019s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called \u201clocation history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/14\/google-settlement-40-states-user-location-tracking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/70a1241d0b1a85ed3184f0a30543bfb245fdf121\/0_134_3500_2099\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cb575d74ada596b83c8fa11291e18d8f\" title=\"Google will pay $392m to 40 states in largest ever US privacy settlement\" \/>Case is a historic win for consumers after an investigation found the tech company tracked users\u2019 location even after they opted out<br \/>\nGoogle has agreed to a $391.5m settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users\u2019 locations, state attorneys general announced on Monday.<br \/>\nThe states\u2019 investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people\u2019s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called \u201clocation history\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case is a historic win for consumers after an investigation found the tech company tracked users\u2019 location even after they opted out Google has agreed to a $391.5m settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users\u2019 locations, state attorneys general announced on Monday. The states\u2019 investigation was sparked by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/14\/google-will-pay-392m-to-40-states-in-largest-ever-us-privacy-settlement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google will pay $392m to 40 states in largest ever US privacy settlement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7870,"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\/7869"}],"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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}