Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 1/26/2022
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Google again, this time over location tracking.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Google for harvesting the location data of its users, claiming the practice violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (TDTPA).
“This most recent Google lawsuit argues that the company misled Texas consumers by continuing to track their personal location even when the user thought he or she had disabled it from doing so. Google then uses the deceptively gathered data to push advertisements to the consumer, earning the Big Tech company enormous profits,” Paxton’s office stated in a press release issued Monday morning.
The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act is a law that requires businesses in Texas to truthfully represent their products and ownership to consumers. By misleadingly implying to users that they can stop location tracking, Paxton claims Google violated the section of the law that bans businesses from withholding information that might prevent consumers from using their product.
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