You've turned off your location history. Now what?
The ACCC's world-first court case against Google claims the internet giant did not adequately alert Android users that they had to switch off not one, but two, settings on their phones to block Google from tracking their location.
The crux of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's case is the claim that Android users did not realise that a two-step process was needed to block Google from collecting location data from their devices. This involved disabling the "Location History" as well as a second setting called "Web and App Activity".
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