In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Rosenblum admitted that he had been tracking user movements for years and sharing the information with advertisers. Despite his belief that consumers had disabled location tracking, Rosenblum admitted in an interview that he had been secretly tracking user movements for years and sharing the information with advertisers. “Cunning and misleading” was used to describe Google’s tactics.
“Rosenblum said that there is no denying what they did, and that we can put controls in place to make it more difficult for them to do so,” he added. “Such data could be used by prosecutors to track women’s movements and defeat state bans after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn abortion rights.” ..
The Google search engine has previously said it will automatically delete records of users’ visits to sensitive locations, including abortion clinics, in response to concerns about the company’s location policy.
The state is investigating Google for allegedly violating Iowa’s consumer privacy law by using two different account settings on its Google search engine and apps.
