Google is facing a class action lawsuit over their use of location tracking in Android devices. Within the last couple of weeks the location tracking ability of smartphones has come under fire. Apple was first to be exposed for storing location data on iPhones, prompting the company to announce an update that is supposed to fix the problem. Google was next in line as the Wall Street Journal reported that Android also stored location tracking data.
From Bloomberg:
The two residents of Oakland County in Michigan said in a complaint filed April 27 in federal court in Detroit that their HTC Inspire 4G phones, which use Google’s Android Operating System, track their whereabouts “just as if by a tracking device for which a court-ordered warrant would ordinarily be required.”
The plaintiffs seek to represent other Android phone users in a class-action lawsuit, as well as at least $50 million in damages and a court order requiring Google to stop tracking its products’ users.
From Bloomberg:
The two residents of Oakland County in Michigan said in a complaint filed April 27 in federal court in Detroit that their HTC Inspire 4G phones, which use Google’s Android Operating System, track their whereabouts “just as if by a tracking device for which a court-ordered warrant would ordinarily be required.”
The plaintiffs seek to represent other Android phone users in a class-action lawsuit, as well as at least $50 million in damages and a court order requiring Google to stop tracking its products’ users.
