{"id":51384,"date":"2022-08-12T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51384"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T00:32:07","slug":"australian-court-hits-google-with-43-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51384","title":{"rendered":"Australian court hits Google with $43 million fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian court has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28718891.9113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTk4MjU1LWdvb2dsZS1maW5lZC00M20tYnktYXVzdHJhbGlhbi1jb3VydC1mb3ItbWlzbGVhZGluZy11c2Vycy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB32115935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28718891.9113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTk4MjU1LWdvb2dsZS1maW5lZC00M20tYnktYXVzdHJhbGlhbi1jb3VydC1mb3ItbWlzbGVhZGluZy11c2Vycy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB32115935&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660435346860000&amp;usg=AOvVaw35kWaAlY4m5BRhdRnqySJs\">ordered Google to pay<\/a>\u00a0roughly $43 million ($60 million AUD) for misleading users about the collection and use of their location data, an Australian competition watchdog said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court found Google breached Australian Consumer Law between January 2017 and December 2018 by misrepresenting to some Android users what settings allowed Google to collect and use personal location data, according to the Australian Competition &amp; Consumer Commission\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court found that Google represented to some users that the \u201cLocation History\u201d setting was the only one that affected whether Google collected, kept and used data about a user\u2019s location, but another \u201cWeb &amp; App Activity\u201d setting also let it collect and use the data when turned on, the watchdog said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis significant penalty imposed by the Court today sends a strong message to digital platforms and other businesses, large and small, that they must not mislead consumers about how their data is being collected and used,\u201d Australian Competition\u00a0&amp; Consumer Commission Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What Google is saying:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve invested heavily in making location information simple to manage and easy to understand with industry-first tools like auto-delete controls, while significantly minimizing the amount of data stored. As we\u2019ve demonstrated, we\u2019re committed to making ongoing updates that give users control and transparency, while providing the most helpful products possible,\u201d\u00a0a Google spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian court has\u00a0ordered Google to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51385,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384\/revisions\/51385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}