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- Arizona has filed a lawsuit against Google accusing it of illegally collecting smartphone users' location data, attorney general Mark Brnovich said in a press release on Wednesday.
- The lawsuit claims Google violated Arizona's consumer fraud laws by tracking users' locations even when they had disabled location tracking settings and demands Google repay any money it made as a result.
- "The Attorney General and the contingency fee lawyers filing this lawsuit appear to have mischaracterized our services," a Google spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider. "We have always built privacy features into our products and provided robust controls for location data."
- Google has repeatedly come under fire for how it collects and uses data, both in the US and globally.
- The company could also soon face two additional lawsuits, one from state attorneys general and another from the DOJ, as probes into the company's ad and search dominance wind down.
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Google is facing another legal challenge accusing it of illegally collecting users' data, this time from Arizona, whose attorney general filed a lawsuit against the company on Wednesday.
The lawsuit claims that Google violated Arizona's consumer fraud laws by continuing to collect smartphone location information even after users explicitly opted out of location tracking, "which Google then exploits to power its lucrative advertising business."
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