California settles with Google over location privacy practices for $93 mn

Search giant Google has agreed to a USD 93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over the its location-privacy practices.

The settlement follows a USD 391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations.

The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called location history.