Security News > 2020 > August > Google Location-Tracking Tactics Troubled Its Own Engineers
Google's own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn't want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case.
The files, unsealed late last week, reveal that Google knew it had a massive problem on its hands after an AP article published in August 2018 explained how the company continued to track users' whereabouts even after they had disabled the feature Google called "Location history."
Some of Google's own engineers scolded the company for misleading people about how its location tracking settings worked.
After the AP article on location tracking came out two years ago, Google made changes to its privacy settings to make it easier for users to conceal their movements.
"The recently unsealed documents reveal statements from Google's own engineers that are in conflict with what the company has been representing to the public," Brnovich said in a Wednesday statement.