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DESCRIPTION:Indiana gets double the money after splitting off from multista
 te lawsuit \n\nAttorney General Todd Rokita today announced a $20 million 
 settlement with Google to resolve Indiana’s lawsuit against Google for d
 eceptive location tracking practices.\n\nThe attorney general filed a sepa
 rate\, independent lawsuit when negotiations between the company and a coa
 lition of state attorneys general stalled. As a result\, Indiana received 
 approximately twice as much money as it would have received as part of the
  settlement that was later reached with the 40 states that did not file la
 wsuits against Google. \n\n“This settlement is another manifestation of 
 our steadfast commitment to protect Hoosiers from Big Tech’s intrusive s
 chemes\,” Attorney General Rokita said. “We will continue holding thes
 e companies accountable for their improper manipulation of consumers.”\n
 \nGoogle’s deceptive practices became widely known following a 2018 stor
 y by the Associated Press. After that story\, multiple states began invest
 igating Google’s location tracking practices. \n\nAs detailed in Indiana
 ’s lawsuit\, Google uses location data collected from Indiana consumers 
 to build detailed user profiles and target ads\, but Google has deceived a
 nd misled users about its practices since at least 2014.\n\nAttorney Gener
 al Rokita aggressively pursued litigation against Google because even a li
 mited amount of location data can expose a person’s identity and routine
 s. Such data can be used to infer personal details such as political or re
 ligious affiliation\, income\, health status or participation in support g
 roups — as well as major life events such as marriage and the birth of c
 hildren. \n\nWith this settlement\, Attorney General Rokita has ensured th
 at Hoosiers are no longer coerced into trading away their privacy.\n\nThis
  lawsuit was handled by an experienced litigation team including Doug Swet
 nam\, Vanessa Voigt Gould\, and Jennifer Van Dame — who tenaciously purs
 ued complex data privacy theories in a Hoosier courtroom against a well-re
 sourced adversary.\n\nIndiana’s settlement is attached.\n\nA headshot of
  Attorney General Rokita is available for download.\n\n###\n\n2022.12.29 I
 N GOOGLE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT [for signature].pdf
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