Google to Pay $391 Million Over 'Crafty' Location Tracking.

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      Nessel said transparency requirements of the 40-stateaccord "will ensure that Google not only makes usersaware of how their location data is being used, but alsohow to change their account settings if they wish todisable location-related account settings, delete thedata collected and set data retention limits." (Bloomberg) -- Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5million to 40 US states to resolve a probe intocontroversial location-tracking practices that theAlphabet Inc. unit says it already discarded severalyears ago, in what state officials are calling thelargest such privacy settlement in US history. Google to Pay $391 Million Over "Crafty" Location Tracking. [Extracted from the article]
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