Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined 39 other Attorneys General across the U.S. in announcing a $391.5M settlement with Google over its location tracking practices relating to Google Account settings. Mississippi is set to receive $6,026,914.88 from the settlement, making it the largest multi-state Attorney General privacy settlement in US history. The investigation into Google’s use of location data was launched in 2018 after an Associated Press article revealed that the company “records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.” According to The AP article, Google misled consumers about its location tracking practices since at least 2014 in account settings relating to Location History and Web & App Activity. The AGs of Oregon and Nebraska led the settlement negotiations, assisted by Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. The final settlement was also joined by Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. (SuperTalk Mississippi 11/15/22) Mississippi awarded over $6 million in Google settlement - SuperTalk Mississippi
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