Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data.
For Google to not collect a device's location data, the user needed to let their wishes be known in both the "Location History" and the "Web & App Activity" setting segments. In its case, which it first brought against the web search giant in July 2020, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACC) had argued that Google did not adequately publicise the secondary setting requirement.
The court ruling handed down
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