Jennifer Pybus

Feb 21, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Jennifer Pybus |Mark P. Cote |Mark R. Côté

IntroductionIn November 2022, Google paid a 391.5 million USD fine after a coalition of 40 states proved the platform had been deliberately misleading users for years, tricking them into believing they had turned off their location data when in fact it was being collected all along. Under this privacy settlement, Google promised to make the disclosure of location tracking clearer (Kang, 2022).