Google clarified that it does in fact collect users’ location data, even if the user’s Location History setting is turned off. (Dreamstime/TNS)
A privacy group said in a letter sent to the US Federal Trade Commission on Friday that Google has violated the terms of a 2011 settlement because of practices exposed in an Associated Press report this week.
The Electronic Privacy Information Centre said in the letter to the FTC that Google’s recording of time-stamped location data – even after users have turned off a setting called Location History – “clearly violates” the 2011 settlement.
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