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Google will pay $29.5M to settle two lawsuits over its location tracking practices

Security Affairs

I am proud of how the exceptional lawyers and professionals in my office have creatively applied the District’s strong consumer protection laws to set the standard nationally and provide users far greater control of their personal information.”. Racine while announcing that Google will pay $9.5 — AG Karl A.

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Google to Pay a record $391M fine for misleading users about the collection of location data

Security Affairs

The settlement is the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever, states the announcement published by DoJ. “Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

” “It would be possible, on detailed examination of video, to compromise elements of operational security,” agreed Mike Hamilton, co-founder and chief information security officer of CI Security and former Seattle CISO. Thought leaders advise reducing or eliminating the use of these skeleton key-like accounts.