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$391.5 MILLION FINE FOR GOOGLE: VIOLATED USERS’ PRIVACY AND PROFILED THEM, MISLEADING THEM ON GEOLOCATION POINT.

The world’s most widely used search engine misled users into thinking that by turning off location tracking – disabling the feature in their account settings – users would no longer be geolocated.

After four years of investigation, the New York Times reported news of the conclusion of what has been called “the largest Internet privacy settlement in the United States”. The settlement in question, between 40 U.S. Attorneys General and Google, resulted in the search engine being ordered to pay $391.5 million in compensation to users in the 40 countries involved.

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