Google faces privacy complaint for tracking users in EU

Google clarified that it does in fact collect users’ location data, even if the user’s Location History setting is turned off. Schrems’s campaign group Noyb on May 13 filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing Google of tracking users of Android phones through a unique ID that ‘allows Google and countless third-parties to’ monitor users. — Dreamstime/TNS

Google faces a data-protection complaint from Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems amid concerns it unlawfully monitors users and passes on the “tracking ID” to advertisers.

Schrems’s campaign group Noyb on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing Google of tracking users of Android phones through a unique ID that “allows Google and countless third-parties to” monitor users.