{"id":1111,"date":"2018-11-30T05:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2023-09-25T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T11:02:18","slug":"did-google-collect-users-location-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/did-google-collect-users-location-without-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Google collect user\u2019s location without consent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is accused of violating European <a href=\"https:\/\/seersco.com\/articles\/gdpr-principles\/\"><strong>Data Protection Laws<\/strong><\/a> (GDPR) by a group of seven consumer organisations.<\/p>\n<p>They have blamed Google of tracking user\u2019s location by using unscrupulous techniques which forces them to google tracking system.<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint to local authorities, the group says there are complexities and lack of limpidity when setting up a google account on the Android device, hidden settings and manipulation are contributing to this cause.<\/p>\n<p>These consumer group organizations are members of BEUC an umbrella group that advocates and lobbies for European consumer groups in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Monique Goyens, director-general of the European Consumer Organisation said \u201c&#8217; Google&#8217;s data hunger is notorious, but the scale with which it deceives its users to track and monetize their every move is breathtaking,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle is not respecting fundamental <a href=\"https:\/\/seersco.com\/articles\/gdpr-principles\/\">GDPR principles<\/a>, such as the obligation to use data in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Google spokesperson said \u2018Location history is turned off by default, and you can edit, delete, or pause it at any time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re constantly working to improve our controls, and we&#8217;ll be reading this report closely to see if there are things, we can take on board.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6433733\/Google-TRACKS-users-IGNORES-privacy-settings-say-consumer-groups.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete story here. <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"listen\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber Security | Seers Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-megamenufull","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}