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Australian Court Orders Google To Pay $43M Over Data

By  |  August 14, 2022

Australia’s competition watchdog said on Friday that Alphabet’s  Google unit was ordered by the country’s Federal Court to pay A$60 million ($42.7 million) in penalties for misleading users on collection of their personal location data.

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    The court found Google misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018. 

    Google took remedial measures in 2018, the regulator said.

    In an emailed statement, Google said it had settled the matter and added it has made location information simple to manage and easy to understand.

    The search engine giant has been embroiled in legal action in Australia over the past year as the government mulled and passed a law to make Google and Meta Platforms’ Facebook pay media companies for content on their platforms.

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