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+ | Numerous customer advocates have often wondered if Google mislead consumers about their location history device internet browser settings? A Federal Court found Google' | ||
+ | Users required to change an additional, separate setting to stop location information from being conserved to their Google account. They needed to browse to "Web & App Activity" | ||
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+ | How Online Privacy With Fake ID Made Me A Greater Salesperson | ||
+ | Consumer supporters reacted to the Federal Court' | ||
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+ | Google has actually considering that changed the way these settings are presented to customers, however is still liable for the conduct the court discovered was likely to misinform many reasonable consumers for two years in 2017 and 2018. | ||
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+ | This is the 2nd current case in which the consumer supporter has succeeded in developing deceptive conduct in a company' | ||
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+ | Unbiased Report Exposes The Unanswered Questions On Online Privacy With Fake ID | ||
+ | The consumer supporter has 2 similar cases in the wings, including another case regarding Google' | ||
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+ | In bringing procedures against companies for misleading conduct in their privacy policies, the consumer supporter is following the US Federal Trade [[https:// | ||
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+ | Can this resolve the problem of confusing and unjust privacy policies? The ACCC's success against Google and HealthEngine in these cases sends an important message to business: they must not misguide consumers when they publish privacy policies and privacy settings. And they might get significant fines if they do. | ||
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+ | However, this will not be enough to stop business from setting privacy-degrading terms for their users, if they spell such conditions out in the fine print. Such terms are currently commonplace, | ||
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+ | Think about the US experience. The US Federal Trade Commission brought action versus the developers of a flashlight app for releasing a privacy policy which didn't reveal the app was tracking and sharing users' place info with third parties. | ||
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+ | However, in the agreement settling this claim, the service was for the developers to rewrite the privacy policy to reveal that users' area and device ID information are shared with 3rd parties. The question of whether this practice was legitimate or proportionate was not considered. | ||
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