Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations

Posted by Soulskill on Monday May 2, 2011 @07:13AM from the privacy-headlines-autoconvert-to-lawsuits-now dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "Two Android phone users are suing Google for $50 million in the wake of revelations that their phones might be tracking their locations. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on April 27, is seeking class-action status. The plaintiffs, Julie Brown and Kayla Molaski, are residents of Oakland County. The two say in the suit that Google's privacy policy did not say that the phones broadcast their location information. Further, they say Google knew that most users would not understand that the privacy policy would allow for Google to track users' locations." Apple was sued for their location tracking last week. According to Boy Genius Report, iOS tracking will be addressed in version 4.3.3, which is due out within a couple weeks.

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It's Google by geoffrobinson · 2011-05-02 07:23 · Score: 1, Troll

I hate to be mean or make excuses for them, but why would anyone be surprised by this? They are making the operating system for free. How would you expect an advertising company to monetize that?
And this is also why I avoid Chrome.

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Re:There's a key difference here. by vinng86 · 2011-05-02 07:31 · Score: 1, Troll

Indeed. Here's a picture.