Google to pay damages for tracking some users
Google will pay damages of around $400 billion for tracking locations
of users who had said not to track them.
This suggests three questions to me.
- Is that sum big enough to convince Google to stop maintaining a
"location history"?
- Will Google stop maintaining a "location history"?
- Will Google continue to receive a sequence of locations even though
it is not supposed to record that sequence?
Meanwhile, every mobile phone's location is tracked by the mobile
network, and US law requires the network to store this history for a
long time. 18 months, I think.