Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

Google’s surveillance-based business model has attracted another prominent opponent. After surviving attacks from employees, human rights groups, Harvard professors, and rival firms, the company now faces a more powerful foe: a quartet of US attorneys general. The bipartisan group of AGs sued Google on Monday for allegedly deceiving users to profit from their location data. “Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access,” said Karl Racine, the Washington DC AG who is leading the campaign. “The truth is that contrary…

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