San Diego man sues Google for tracking users' location without permission
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-me-google-sued-privacy-location-20180821-story,amp.html
nypost.com/2018/08/21/google-tracking-is-even-creepier-than-you-thought-study-finds/amp/
" At one point during the study, it walks through a typical “day in the life” experiment involving a real user with a new Google account and an Android phone with a new SIM card. She goes about her daily routine while Google collects data via everything from her location, routes taken, music she listen to, and more. “Surprisingly,” the study notes, “Google collected or inferred over two-thirds of the information through passive means.”
It continues: “Both Android and Chrome send data to Google even in the absence of any user interaction. Our experiments show that a dormant, stationary Android phone (with Chrome active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour. In fact, location information constituted 35 percent of all the data samples sent to Google.”
About tracking location information — as a reminder, we reported yesterday that, following an Associated Press investigation, a San Diego man has filed a complaint against Google in federal court in San Francisco. It seeks class-action status on behalf of Android and iPhone users who turned off the “Location History” feature on their phones, which the complaint says Google ignored by then spying on their movements anyway."
I saw on OAN that class action status has been awarded…apologies if I missed seeing this here and duplicated effort.