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US, EU consumer groups call on FTC to investigate Google's Android tracking practices

( November 27, 2018, 16:39 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue has written to the US Federal Trade Commission calling on it to investigate Google for unfairly and deceptively manipulating users of mobile phones with the Android operating system into being constantly location-tracked. The complaint is based on a recently-released report showing that Google manipulates and nudges users of mobile phones with the Android operating system into being constantly location-tracked through the Location History and Web & App Activity settings, which are applied to all Google accounts....

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