{"id":53574,"date":"2022-11-16T05:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53574"},"modified":"2022-11-16T05:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:32:52","slug":"wapo-google-reaches-record-392m-privacy-settlement-over-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53574","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Google reaches record $392M privacy settlement over location data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/11\/15\/google-privacy-settlement-location-data\/\">Google reaches record $392M privacy settlement over location data<\/a> by Bryan Pietsch (\u201cGoogle agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 states to settle an investigation into its location tracking practices, a coalition of state attorneys general announced Monday. The investigation had centered on what Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (D), one of the state law enforcement officers who led the probe, called misleading and deceptive tactics regarding users\u2019 location data. &#8216;Consumers thought they had turned off their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers,&#8217; she said in a statement.\u201d).  If Google has it, it is third-party data the government can subpoena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Google reaches record $392M privacy settlement over location data by Bryan Pietsch (\u201cGoogle agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 states to settle an investigation into its location tracking practices, a coalition of state attorneys general announced Monday. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53574","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=53574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53576,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53574\/revisions\/53576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}