The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018.

澳大利亚竞争与消费者委员会 (ACCC) 宣布，谷歌因在 2017 年 1 月至 2018 年 12 月的近两年时间里在收集和使用其位置数据方面误导澳大利亚 Android 用户而被罚款 6000 万美元。

The Australian competition watchdog said the tech giant continued tracking some of its users' Android phones even though they had disabled "Location History" in the device's settings.

澳大利亚竞争监管机构表示，这家科技巨头继续跟踪其部分用户的 Android 手机，尽管他们在设备设置中禁用了“位置历史记录”。

While customers were misled into thinking that setting would disable location tracking, another account setting turned on by default and named "Web & App Activity" enabled the company "to collect, store and use personally identifiable location data."

虽然客户被误导认为该设置会禁用位置跟踪，但默认情况下打开另一个名为“Web & App Activity”的帐户设置使公司能够“收集、存储和使用个人可识别的位置数据”。

ACCC says that based on available data, it is estimated that more than 1.3 million Google accounts belonging to Australians have been affected.

ACCC 表示，根据现有数据，估计有超过 130 万个属于澳大利亚人的谷歌账户受到影响。

"Google, one of the world's largest companies, was able to keep the location data collected through the 'Web & App Activity' setting and that retained data could be used by Google to target ads to some consumers, even if those consumers had the "Location History" setting turned off," said ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb.

“谷歌是世界上最大的公司之一，它能够保留通过‘网络和应用活动’设置收集的位置数据，谷歌可以使用保留的数据将广告定位到某些消费者，即使这些消费者拥有“ “位置记录”设置已关闭，”ACCC 主席 Gina Cass-Gottlieb 说。

"Personal location data is sensitive and important to some consumers, and some of the users who saw the representations may have made different choices about the collection, storage and use of their location data if the misleading representations had not been made by Google."

“个人位置数据对一些消费者来说既敏感又重要，如果谷歌没有做出误导性的陈述，一些看到这些陈述的用户可能会对他们的位置数据的收集、存储和使用做出不同的选择。”

Australia's competition watchdog started proceedings against Google in October 2019. In April 2021, the Australian Federal Court found that the search giant had breached the Australian Consumer Law by misleading customers about the collection and use of their location data.

澳大利亚的竞争监管机构于 2019 年 10 月开始对谷歌提起诉讼。2021 年 4 月，澳大利亚联邦法院认定这家搜索巨头在收集和使用其位置数据方面误导客户违反了澳大利亚消费者法。

Google took remedial steps and addressed all issues that led to this fine by 20 December 2018, with users no longer shown misleading information suggesting that pausing location history will stop collecting info about the places they go with their devices.

谷歌采取了补救措施，并在 2018 年 12 月 20 日之前解决了导致罚款的所有问题，用户不再显示误导性信息，表明暂停位置历史记录将停止收集有关他们使用设备去过的地方的信息。

"Companies need to be transparent about the types of data that they are collecting and how the data is collected and may be used so that consumers can make informed decisions about who they share that data with," Cass-Gottlieb added.

“公司需要对他们正在收集的数据类型以及如何收集和使用数据保持透明，以便消费者可以就他们与谁共享这些数据做出明智的决定，”Cass-Gottlieb 补充道。

In January, France's National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) has also fined Google $170 million for making it difficult for website visitors to reject tracking cookies by hiding this option behind multiple clicks, which was an infringement of the freedom of consent of internet users.

今年 1 月，法国国家信息与自由委员会 (CNIL) 还 对谷歌处以1.7 亿美元的罚款，原因是谷歌 通过将这个选项隐藏在多次点击之后，使网站访问者难以拒绝跟踪 cookie，这侵犯了互联网用户的同意自由。

Previously, Google was also fined $11.3 million for aggressive data collection, €220 million for favoring its services to the disadvantage of competitors, $1.7 billion for anti-competitive practices in online advertising, and $2.72 billion for abusing its dominant market position to tweak search results.

此前，谷歌还因激进的数据收集被罚款 1130 万 美元，因偏袒竞争对手的服务而被罚款2.2 亿欧元 ，因在线广告中的反竞争行为被罚款 17 亿美元 ，以及 因滥用其市场主导地位调整搜索结果而被罚款 27.2 亿美元。

我有三宝，持而保之：一曰慈，二曰俭，三曰不敢为天下先。

——《道德经.第六十七章》

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