ACCC takes Google to court for allegedly misleading consumers over location data

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has commenced court proceedings against Google for allegedly misleading consumers about location data collected, kept and used.

The statement of claim, filed today in the Federal Court, alleges that Google represented to Android users since at least January 2017 that “it would not obtain data about their location, or that where such data was obtained it would only be used for the user’s own purposes”.