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A comment on Google’s location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona.

Re:Google’s location privacy practices are under investigati... by 394549 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:07PM (#17961969)
> Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted out of such tracking has sparked an investigation in Arizona, where the state's attorney general could potentially levy a hefty fine against the search giant.

If they get fined, I hope the fine is hefty enough that a company as large as Google notices and changes its behavior, not something piddling like $10 million that they'll just write off as a cost of doing business.

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Re:Google’s location privacy practices are under investigati... by a_hypotehsis on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:14PM (#17964570)
Agree, I have the same fear.

Google has done such a good job "lobbying" their "friends" in Washington, that the AGs from the more privacy-focused states (like Arizona) are probably our best hope for bringing this bad apple into line.

How Google engineers can think it's ethically acceptable to ship interfaces like this, I have no idea. Time to give them a legal liability reason to do the right thing as a stand-in.

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Re:Google’s location privacy practices are under investigati... by forgottenpass on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:31PM (#17971624)
>How Google engineers can think it's ethically acceptable to ship interfaces like this, I have no idea.

Googlers trust Google.

I think that's the most terrifying thing about Google.

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