Google gets off easy in location tracking lawsuits

Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing. The cases filed in the Midwestern state and the …

[alain williams]

A win all the way round

Google gets off pretending to be innocent and not having to make a real change to behaviour.

The Indiana & DC prosecutors score more $$ than it cost the states to take Google to court, thus their continued existence is guaranteed for at least another year.

[Someone Else]

"Well, there you go again!"

YAN toothless "get out of Jail free" card for SuperSlurper. I'm sure the political contributions to the AGs of DC and (especially) Indiana will now continue unabated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Another demonstration of laws are only for consumer

get back to work, filthy rich people need more billions. so they can harvest.

"$29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing.

- location data, which it then turned into billions in advertising dollars."

[sketharaman]

What happens to the lawsuits that used location data supplied by Google against warrants from law enforcement? Will they be reopened??