{"id":172225,"date":"2023-09-17T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/google-fined-93-million-for-deceiving-users-about-tracking"},"modified":"2023-09-17T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:27:08","slug":"google-fined-93-million-for-deceiving-users-about-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/google-fined-93-million-for-deceiving-users-about-tracking","title":{"rendered":"Google fined $93 million for deceiving users about tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-fined-93-million-for-deceiving-users-about-tracking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Users should continue to evaluate their settings to understand how they are being tracked.<\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthy examination into its data practices, Google has agreed to pay $93 million to resolve claims that it misled customers about how and when their location information was being tracked and stored. The investigation was led by the California Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-bonta-announces-93-million-settlement-regarding-google%E2%80%99s\" title=\"a statement\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a statement<\/a> released by California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s office on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Google is not unfamiliar to lawsuits. The company has been the target of legal action regarding privacy and data protection throughout the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users should continue to evaluate their settings to understand how they are being tracked. Following a lengthy examination into its data practices, Google has agreed to pay $93 million to resolve claims that it misled customers about how and when their location information was being tracked and stored. The investigation was led by the California [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}