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   Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show   
   that company executives and engineers were aware that the search   
   giant had made it hard for smartphone users to keep location   
   information private, Insider reported.   
      
   The documents suggest that Google collected location data even   
   after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy   
   settings difficult for users to find. Insider also reports that   
   the documents show Google pressured phone manufacturers into   
   keeping privacy settings hidden, because the settings were   
   popular with users.   
      
   Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit against   
   Google last May, alleging the company illegally tracked Android   
   users’ location without their consent, even if users had   
   disabled location tracking features. The lawsuit suggested   
   Google kept location tracking running in the background for some   
   features, and only stopped the practice when users disabled   
   system-level tracking.   
      
   The unredacted documents show one Google employee asked if there   
   was “no way to give a third party app your location and not   
   Google?” adding that it didn’t sound like something the company   
   would want revealed to the media, according to Insider.   
      
   Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in an email to The Verge   
   that Brnovich “and our competitors driving this lawsuit have   
   gone out of their way to mischaracterize our services. We have   
   always built privacy features into our products and provided   
   robust controls for location data. We look forward to setting   
   the record straight."   
      
   https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/29/22460070/google-difficult-   
   android-privacy-settings-arizona   
       
      
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