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Google Android Location Tracking Class Action Lawsuit
By Sarah Pierce
Apple isn’t the only company in trouble for tracking mobile device users’ locations without their permission. Google has just been hit with a $50 million class action lawsuit for secretly recording and storing details of Android users’ movements. The Google Android class action lawsuit comes nearly two weeks after Apple was hit with a class action lawsuit for secretly storing the location data of iPad and iPhone users. About a week later, Google also acknowledged that phones running its Android software record and store some location data directly on the phone after the user has chosen to use GPS services.
Google said this is done “to provide a better mobile experience on Android devices” and stressed that any location sharing is done with the user’s permission. The Android class action lawsuit disagrees.
“Cellular phones using Google’s Android Operating System are carried with users to essentially every location they travel, making the information collected by Google highly personal… in many instances it may be information to which employers are spouses are not privy and to which Plaintiffs and other members of the class would wish to remain private,” the class action lawsuit states. “The accessibility of the unencrypted information collected by Google places users at serious risk of privacy invasions, including stalking.”
The class action goes on to say that Android users have no way of preventing Google from collecting this information “because even if users disable the Android GPS components, Google’s tracking system remains functional.”
The Android location tracking class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of a proposed class of all persons in the United States who purchased, owned or carried around an Android Operating System phone between the release of those products for sale by Google and others and the present. It is seeking damages in excess of $50 million for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on behalf of the estimated millions of Android users who were secretly tracked.
A copy of the Google Android GPS Tracking Class Action Lawsuit can be read here. It is titled Brown et al. v. Google, Incorporated, Case No. 2:11-cv-11867-AC-MAR, United States District Court in Detroit Michigan.
Updated May 2nd, 2011
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8 thoughts onGoogle Android Location Tracking Class Action Lawsuit
Will you please check my name for the Google location tracking lawsuit please? If you need emails I will send them. Thank you.
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Add me try to take off said might make other applications to act up.
Add me. I had an android in 2016
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Note this Google statement–> “to provide a better mobile experience on Android devices” and stressed that any location sharing is done with the user’s permission. In fact, Google obstructs use of their SW unless you agree to their penetration of your privacy. So, the Google statement of record is a lie and should be used against them in court. That Google tracks its users, does not provide a way for its users to know this, and keeps secret both the mechanism for tracking and any way to turn it off may be a breach of 4th amendment civil rights of every single Android user by Google. The lawsuit should be $1,000,000,000 per Android user, plus legal and other case-related fees.
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Google Android Location Tracking Class Action Lawsuit
I would like to know how to be added to this please. Put me in…
Google Android Location Tracking Class Action Lawsuit
So does that mean anybody with an Android phone with get some money if they win?