said that the state relied heavily on internal
Google communications, none of which state
deinitively that consumers were misled.
Documents unsealed in the Arizona case
in August 2020 revealed that Google’s own
engineers were troubled by the way the
company secretly tracked the movements of
users who didn’t want to be followed.
Racine’s oice said it began its investigation
in August 2018 showing that Google records
users’ movements even when they explicitly tell
it not to, through the “Location History” setting.
Computer-science researchers at Princeton
University conirmed the indings at the
AP’s request.
Inside Google, a self-titled “Oh S---“ meeting
was convened the day the story was published
to come up with responses, the new D.C. iling
says. Afterwards, Google updated its Help Page
to remove the misleading point, “With Location
History of, the places you go are no longer
stored,” the suit says.