Paidsettlement · State consumer-protection law
Google's $391.5M location-tracking settlement
$391.5M
US State Attorneys General
US · 2022
Status: Paid
What happened
Forty US states settled claims that Google misled users into believing location tracking was off while it kept collecting location data through other settings such as Web & App Activity. It was the largest multistate privacy settlement at the time.
How it affected users
Users who explicitly opted out of location history were still tracked, and their movements fed advertising profiles without informed consent.
Status timeline
Nov 14, 2022
Penalty announced.
Sources
Last verified 2026-07-02. Spotted an error? Report a correction.
Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Google's $391.5M location-tracking settlement," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2022-11-14. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-us-location-2022/