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Unredacted documents reveal how Google tricked users into sharing private data

Unredacted documents reveal how Google tricked users into sharing private data

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Google has been adding various privacy improvements to its services and apps in the past few years, but it wasn't solely out of its own volition. Google's own privacy-infringing problems forced the company to reconsider some of its practices. Then there's Apple's massive interest in security and privacy that forced Google to come up with matching features in Android and its apps.

But Google apparently never wanted users to have that much freedom when it comes to certain aspects of their privacy. Newly unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Google revealed that the Search giant made it nearly impossible for users to keep location data private from Google. Location is one of the most sensitive privacy topics for Google, as the company was recently caught collecting user data from people who thought their privacy settings would not allow it.

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Google has been adding various privacy improvements to its services and apps in the past few years, but it wasn't solely out of its own volition. Google's own privacy-infringing problems forced the company to reconsider some of its practices. Then there's Apple's massive interest in security and privacy that forced Google to come up with …google, Location, privacy
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