Google lost another location-data lawsuit
California sued Google
for keeping track
of location history even when a user had specified not to do so.
In the settlement, Google committed to being more "transparent" about what
it was doing with location data. The article does not say that it
committed to giving users the option for not storing location data
that it will truly obey.
The usual practice when
governments regulate with snooping
disservices
is to assume that "transparency" (as part of asking for "consent") is
sufficient to make any sort of snooping legitimate.
Given that many users find that other aspects of
their lives practically compel them to use the disservice, they
don't really have the choice not to "consent". Making the
request for consent "transparent" does nothing to fix that.