In the first ruling of its kind, the Australian Federal Court announced on Friday that Google violated the country’s laws surrounding consumer safety when it misled Australian Android users about the location data that their phones were collecting.
In the first ruling of its kind, the Australian Federal Court announced on Friday that Google violated the country’s laws surrounding consumer safety when it misled Australian Android users about the location data that their phones were collecting. The decision was a partial win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—or ACCC—that first raised charges against the company back in 2019 over the “misleading representations” the company made about the on-boarding process Google used for new Android devices throughout 2017 and 2018. “This is an important victory for consumers, especially anyone concerned about their privacy online,” ACC Chair Rod Sims said in a statement.
