The notion that a company as big and ubiquitous as Google would resort to deliberately misleading and deceiving Australians into giving away what they thought was private information about themselves is shocking, to say the least.

But that’s exactly what was revealed last week, when the Federal Court of Australia agreed with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and found that Google engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when it kept collecting and storing location data from Android phones, even after users had explicitly turned their phone’s “Location History” setting to “off”.