https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/24/newly-unredacted-documents-show-google-shared-location-with-other-apps-and-more/
https://archive.fo/DpWD0
A new version of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s lawsuit against tech behemoth Google alleges the company tracked users’ location across third party apps and still gathered that information when devices connected to WiFi, even if location services were off. And company employees voiced concerns that the media, including The New York Times, would find out. “So there is no way to give a third party app your location and not Google?” A Google employee is quoted saying in the complaint in a newly unredacted section. “This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT.” The complaint is part of an ongoing consumer fraud lawsuit Brnovich first filed in May 2020 alleging that Google’s data collection schemes violated the state’s Consumer Fraud Act, though large portions of the lawsuit were redacted by the court at Google’s request. What has followed has been a legal battle over what has been able to be released.