Google Settings Still Confusing After Suit Over How Confusing They Were

The change is definitely an improvement. The original settings were so confusing that even Google employees complained about them. “Speaking as a user, WTF? More specifically I **thought** I had location tracking turned off on my phone,” one Google engineer said, according to documents that surfaced during the lawsuit.

Google did fix the problem which prompted the Arizona lawsuit. The language describing the Location History control isn’t literally incorrect anymore. But if you don’t read carefully, it would be easy to adjust the Location History setting without realizing that Google would still be following you around.The settlement was a big monetary win for Arizona.

The Arizona settlement is emblematic of issues that keep cropping up in tech industry regulation, says Jonathan Mayer, a professor at Princeton University, who consulted on“Settling claims for a cash penalty and modest concessions is usually much easier than changing how a company does business,” Mayer says. “Privacy litigation in the U.S. is often grounded in consumer deception claims. If a company simply updates its notice to users, that can be sufficient for legal compliance.

The real problem for privacy fans is there are very few laws about how companies handle your data in the United States. The government has come closer than ever to passingAdvertisement For now, it’s business as usual. Companies can basically do whatever they want with your data. They can’t lie to you about it, but they can make it quite difficult to determine the truth.

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