Google has agreed to pay more than $391 million to settle a bipartisan, multistate action that accuses the tech giant of deceiving users about how their location data are handled.
The settlement came about 10 months after state attorneys general from 40 states filed suits separately in each jurisdiction, alleging that Google, since at least 2014, has been falsely leading users to believe that changing their privacy settings could stop the company from tracking their location.
“Big Tech is watching us, but Silicon Valley needs to know that we are watching them too, and if they violate our consumer protection laws, we will take strong action to protect our citizens,” Ashley Moody, Florida’s attorney general who co-led the case, stated in a Nov. 14 press release…. » Read full article

UK Leading the Way Back to Sanity? “UK Supreme Court rules trans women are not real women”
https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1912663931547680785 Watch the electric response in a packed courtroom of women as the UK Supreme Court delivers a landmark ruling, defining “woman” under the law as exclusively those born