{"id":34492,"date":"2018-08-29T04:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T09:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34492"},"modified":"2018-08-29T04:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T09:04:25","slug":"abaj-class-action-filed-against-google-over-location-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34492","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: Class action filed against Google over location tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/class_action_filed_against_google_over_location_tracking\/?utm_source=maestro&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=tech_monthly\">Class action filed against Google over location tracking<\/a> by Jason Tashea:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A California man has brought a suit against Google for collecting location data, even when \u201cLocation History\u201d was turned off.<\/p>\n<p>The class action brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California comes on the heels of an AP report that found Google applications were still collecting location data after users had affirmatively turned off location tracking.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4777351-Gov-Uscourts-Cand-330787-1-0.html\">filing<\/a> alleges that the deceptive practice is in violation of California\u2019s Invasion of Privacy Act and the state\u2019s Constitutional Right to Privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, it was believed\u2014and stated by Google\u2014that disabling \u201cLocation History\u201d meant that the company was no longer tracking a user\u2019s location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: Class action filed against Google over location tracking by Jason Tashea:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34493,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492\/revisions\/34493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}