Google to pay record $391.5 million privacy settlement
Google will pay a record $391.5 million privacy settlement. The tech giant will fork out the eye-watering sum after 40 US states claimed that it had tracked the location of users who opted out of location services on their devices. Google has been told to be transparent about location tracking in the future and to develop a web page telling people about the data it collects. The case is the largest multi-state settlement in US history. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement: "Consistent with improvements we've made in recent years, we have settled this investigation, which was ...