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Google misled customers about use of location data, court rules – Sydney Morning Herald
In a decision touted by the consumer watchdog as a world-first, the Federal Court ruled digital giant Google had misled some users about how the company was collecting…
Penalties will be decided at a later date.
Googles conduct would not have misled all reasonable users … but Googles conduct misled or was likely to mislead some reasonable users, Justice Thawley said.
The number or proportion of reasonable users who were misled, or were likely to have been misled, does not matter for the purposes of establishing contraventions
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