![]() ![]() Pursuant to the settlement, EDC will pay $1 million and: Since that time, the identity thief has pleaded guilty to a variety of criminal charges. According to the announcement, however, EDC failed to notify affected consumers of the identity thief’s actions. ![]() Secret Service notified EDC of the identity thief and that he was accessing information from the database. Experian Enters $1 Million Multistate Settlement Relating to a Data BreachĪ group of 40 state attorneys generals announced a multistate settlement with Experian Data Corp (EDC) for failing to warn affected consumers that an identity thief was illicitly retrieving sensitive personal information from a database owned by EDC. The settlement follows an $80 million settlement that Google entered in October with the Arizona AG relating to the same practices. The investigation resulted from a 2018 news article. As part of the settlement, Google agreed to provide additional information to users accessing location-related account settings and provide detailed information about how Google collects and uses location data at a location technologies website. Specifically, the AGs alleged that Google created a confusing user interface for its Android phone software that made users wishing to disable location tracking believe they had disabled such tracking by turning it off in a “Location History” account setting when, in fact, they needed to disable location tracking in a separate “Web & App Activity” account setting, as well, in order to disable all location tracking. Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to resolve an investigation by 40 state AGs relating to its location tracking practices. Google Enters $391.5 Million Multistate Settlement Resolving Allegations Relating to Its Location Tracking Practices
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