Google is being taken to court for allegedly misleading consumers to give away a lot more personal information than they had expected.
Aside from tracking people’s online activity on its search engine and platforms, Google also monitors users’ internet activity on “non-Google” sites and apps to boost its targeted advertising.
However, the consumer watchdog will argue before the Federal Court that Google failed to “properly inform consumers” and did not gain their “explicit informed consent” when it changed a key privacy policy four years ago.
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