[HN Gopher] Google to pay $29M settling location tracking with D...
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Google to pay $29M settling location tracking with DC, IN; -$392M
to 40 states
Author : Terretta
Score : 31 points
Date : 2023-01-01 21:21 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (events.in.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (events.in.gov)
| leereeves wrote:
| That's about $3 per person in Indiana. They must not have been
| able to demonstrate much harm if they're willing to settle for so
| little.
|
| Which I personally find unfortunate. I loathe location tracking
| and wish these penalties had real teeth.
| dsfyu404ed wrote:
| > They must not have been able to demonstrate much harm if
| they're willing to settle for so little.
|
| They probably had the cops put in a good word for how useful
| they find the tracking. I'm sure that didn't hurt.
| User23 wrote:
| No monetary penalty has teeth. Unless the corporate veil is
| pierced and executives go to prison it's just one more ordinary
| business expense.
| dmix wrote:
| I suspect that would result in low level employees getting
| scapegoated.
|
| It's important to evaluate the realities of how laws will
| work in practice, not just what we want ideally to happen. A
| corporation is a legal and tax framework, it might be
| difficult to tack on such a law without fundamentally
| changing how corporations operate.
|
| But this has been debate to death on HN, which is why I
| suspect you're being downvoted.
| INeedMoreRam wrote:
| [dead]
| westonmyers wrote:
| Article and agreement say $20,000,000. Am I missing something?
| blamazon wrote:
| I think OP article is about a subset of a larger federal-level
| settlement mentioned that was announced in November 2022:
|
| > NOVEMBER 14, 2022: Attorney General Josh Shapiro Announces
| $391 Million Settlement with Google Over Location Tracking
| Practices [1]
|
| [1]: https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/attorney-
| gener...
| [deleted]
| sigmonsays wrote:
| i've started researching my next phone without google services
| (Or strictly limited). Probably going with grapheneOS.
|
| Googles entire business is to track us and sell ads. So they're
| never going to change.
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| They're also a useful tool for NSA and the likes, which makes
| me distrust them even more.
|
| A corporation so evil that you forget how evil they are. Don't
| know if it's any better than any other form of evil, but it
| definitely is a highly unethical company pushing towards a
| highly unethical tech future.
| LarryMullins wrote:
| Banality of evil.
| [deleted]
| rdxm wrote:
| [dead]
| LarryMullins wrote:
| I think this headline gave me a stroke. They're settling for 29M
| with DC and Indiana, but -392M with other states? What does
| settling for negative money mean, the states pay Google?
|
| Also the details in the headline aren't in the article. The
| article doesn't mention "392M", nor DC.
| [deleted]
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