By Kyle Brasseur2023-09-15T16:51:00
Technology giant Google agreed to pay $93 million as part of a settlement with the state of California regarding its location data privacy practices.
The agreement, announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday, comes nearly a year since Google consented to pay a record $391.5 million in a settlement reached with a coalition of 40 state attorneys general—excluding California—regarding a setting that tracked location data without users’ knowledge.
California’s multiyear investigation uncovered similar findings—that Google was “deceiving users by collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purposes without informed consent,” according to a press release.
2024-02-07T18:00:00Z By Jeff Dale
Alphabet, the parent company of technology giant Google, agreed to pay $350 million in a preliminary settlement with shareholders over alleged data privacy violations and materially false and misleading statements linked to now-defunct social media site Google+.
2022-11-15T21:26:00Z By Jeff Dale
Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle charges it misled millions of users regarding a setting that tracked location data without their knowledge, according to an agreement the company reached with a coalition of 40 state attorneys general.
2022-10-26T16:01:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Google reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with the Department of Justice requiring the tech giant to hire an outside compliance expert and overhaul its legal compliance process.
2025-09-11T20:53:00Z By Neil Hodge
Europe’s banking regulator warns that weak compliance at fintech, regtech, and crypto firms may let money laundering and terrorist financing risks slip through. The EBA also found EU regulators’ approaches are often inconsistent and unclear.
2025-09-10T22:24:00Z By Adrianne Appel
California, Colorado, and Connecticut launched a joint enforcement sweep against businesses that fail to honor consumers’ online opt-out requests, the states announced Tuesday.
2025-09-09T16:51:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
A Houston-based freight forwarder, Fracht FWO Inc., will pay $1.6 million for violating U.S. sanctions tied to Venezuela and Iran, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The fine comes as OFAC ramps up enforcement in recent months.
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