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Google is being sued by individuals that allege that the company uses cellular data without permission to send information back to Google. Google is facing a lawsuit that highlights just how much data (260mb) Google sends home about you and your Android device. These are all passive, background transfers that will happen even if the user doesn\u2019t use their phone \u2013 merely leaves it on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint detailed:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle designed and implemented its Android operating system and apps to extract and transmit large volumes of information between Plaintiffs\u2019 cellular devices and Google using Plaintiffs\u2019 cellular data allowances. Google\u2019s misappropriation of Plaintiffs\u2019 cellular data allowances through passive transfers occurs in the background, does not result from Plaintiffs\u2019 direct engagement with Google\u2019s apps and properties on their devices, and happens without Plaintiffs\u2019 consent.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Google uses your cellular data to track you for advertising purposes<\/span><\/h2>\n

Most people have their apps set to only update over WiFi to save the cellular data which usually has lower limits than WiFi connections. However, even if you set your apps to only work over WiFi, core Google apps and processes still interact with <\/span>Google servers<\/span><\/a>. This tracking happens in real time because that\u2019s how it is most useful to Google\u2019s monolithic ad service and real time bidding in general. Rules reining in this anti-privacy and anti-consumer behaviour at a <\/span>legislative level<\/span><\/a> can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint further details that when you start using an Android phone, none of the terms and conditions that Google makes you accept covers this type of behavior. Even without worrying about the huge privacy ramifications of having your phone always phoning home to Google, 260mb of data per month works out to about $1 of cellular data that Google is \u201cstealing\u201d from the average customer.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that attention has been called to uncontrollable data transfers from phone companies. Estimates say that iOS sends about half of that data monthly. One other thing that the lawsuit brings up is that Google sends preloaded tokens that represent ads to Android mobile users, but these ads sometimes aren\u2019t even loaded even though Google counts the impression. The lawsuit continued:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUsers often never view these pre-loaded ads, even though their cellular data was already consumed to download the ads from Google. And because these pre-loads can count as ad impressions, Google is paid for transmitting the ads.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That means that Google could be on the hook for defrauding advertisers, as well. Google declined to comment to The Register<\/a> on either aspect of the ongoing lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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