Google is paying $391.5 million to 40 states to settle claims the company continued to collect location data after users turned off location tracking.
The record consumer privacy settlement was negotiated by a coalition of state attorneys general led by Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum and Nebraska AG Doug Peterson.
“For years Google has prioritized profit over their users privacy,” Rosenblum said in a statement. “They have been crafty and deceptive.”
When customers turned off location tracking, Google “continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers,” Rosenblum said.
The attorneys general found that Google had been violating state consumer protection laws since at least 2014 by misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
