Google to pay about $400M in location-tracking suit settlement, Reuters reports

Alphabet’s Google will pay about $400 million to settle a complaint brought by a group of states over allegations the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, Reuters’ Diane Bartz, David Shepardson, and Karen Freifeld report, citing two people familiar with the matter. The announcement will come as early as Monday, the sources said. The lawsuit, which includes Oregon, one of the people said, is a sign of mounting legal headaches for the tech company from state attorneys general who have aggressively targeted its user tracking practices in recent months, the authors say. Reference Link