Google sued by Arizona over allegations of unlawful tracking of Android users’ locations - Android

Google, as well as other tech giants, have been under increasing scrutiny in regards to the privacy of their users. Now, that Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is suing Google over allegations of unlawfully using location data from Android users.

Allegedly, Google has kept location data services running in the background even after the user disabled app-specific location tracking. The complaint states that in order to completely turn off location services, the user has to search deep into the Android system settings and turn it off from there, on a system level. Therefore, Brnovich ...