Google is often associated with the problem of collecting user information without their knowledge, and this has led to various lawsuits being filed against them around the world.
The same thing seems to have happened in Australia, where the country's court has ordered the US technology company to pay A$60 million (~RM210 million) in a lawsuit due to confusion about the activities of collecting user data.
This suit, filed since 2019 by the Australian government, says that Google appears to have several different ways of collecting the location information of the country's users. Google previously allowed users to disable location data collection features, but what users didn't know was that the data could still be collected in other ways through their Android devices.
One of these ways is through web monitoring functions and also applications that are seen to contain ways to collect the same data. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission says that as many as 1.3 million Android device users from 2017 to 2018 were affected by this matter.
Google confirmed that this matter has been resolved since 2018 by simplifying the process of preventing this data tracking, and has also paid the resulting lawsuit.
