Google sued for secretly tracking people's phones

Google is facing a lawsuit surrounding allegations that it illegally tracked millions of people through their phones, even after they set their privacy settings to disable the sharing of their location history. Napoleon Patacsil of San Diego is seeking class-action status on behalf of US users of Android phones and Apple iPhones who were tracked against their will and knowledge. Mr Patacsil claims Google's "principal goal" was to "surreptitiously monitor" phone users and let third parties do the same. "Google represented that a user'can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.' This simply was not true," the complaint states.