Google has very big problems at the moment because of Google Maps, Google Chrome, and other services through which they monitor the locations of the users who use their respective services. Those from Google did not clearly display information about the fact that they monitor the world that uses these services, the journalists found out about everything on their own, and after they announced to the public, a global revolt started regarding this practice .
Google has admitted that what it is doing is not exactly ok, and has changed the terms of use for its services, confirming the fact that there is a possibility that some information about locations may be transmitted to its servers. Following this change, the first people dissatisfied with the way Google allows these services to be offered decided to take the American company to court to demand its sanction, but also compensation for what happened.
Google has BIG PROBLEMS because of Maps, and NOT ONLY
Google was sued by an American, who is demanding compensation on behalf of all iPhone and Android phone users whose data was taken without them knowing that this happened. Moreover, he would like this process to become a collective one, and this would mean that any other open lawsuits against Google in the US would be combined to have greater power, and gather all the evidence of the accusations in one single place
"Google represented that a user can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.' This simply wasn't true. And Google says the following:There are a number of different ways that Google may use location to improve people's experience, including: Location, History, Web and App Activity, and through device-level Location Services."
Google knows how important the discussion is about protecting user privacy, but it is not the only company that takes people's data without them knowing, so it should not be the only one sued. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung, Huawei, and almost every phone manufacturer or online service does this, Google being caught in the middle because only for it a complex study was done to discover this problem.
