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- Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on by Washington state with a payment of $39.9 million.
- The lawsuit alleged that Google misled users about its location tracking practices.
- The state claims that Google profited from the location data of its users even when they had disabled tracking on their devices.
In what’s Google’s second multi-million dollar legal settlement this week, the tech giant will cough up $39.9 million to resolve a lawsuit over misleading location tracking practices. Google will pay the sum to Washington state over claims that it deceived users into believing they had control over their location data.