Google did it again. Or allegedly done it again.
Google can't stop from snooping; Now, Arizona wants to file a case
To legally require Google to take action on their security complaints, the Arizona lawyer wants to ask the court to make Google pay 'back profits' that the company may have earned from making money out of the taken data.
To make it much worse for Google, The Washington Post also highlighted Arizona's strict anti-fraud laws, which might subject the tech giant to $10,000 per fine violations.
"At some point, people or companies that have a lot of money think they can do whatever the hell they want to do, and feel like they are above the law," Brnovich told The Post in an interview. "I wanted Google to get the message that Arizona has a state consumer fraud act. They may be the most innovative company in the world, but that doesn't mean they're above the law."
As of now, Google has not yet released any statements regarding this issue.
No longer news for Google
This is not the first time Google was subjected to a privacy lawsuit.
The company last year faced a much bigger class-action lawsuit, requiring them to pay about $13 million settlement to its Street View project.
Street View is a 2017 project of Google that lets users interact with panoramic images of locations worldwide. Several people filed a case against this project after their data, such as emails, passwords, and other private information, were stolen.
Google argued that the collection of data was only a 'mistake.' But investigators found out that it was intentionally done from 2007 to 2010, with a technology mainly intercepting data.
