Google received a pittance of $9.5 million. Last quarter, it took Alphabet less than 20 minutes to generate as much money. Changes to the company’s procedures as part of the settlement may have a greater effect.
Individuals who have particular location settings enabled will get alerts explaining how to deactivate each option, erase the related data, and restrict how long Google may store that information. Users who create a new Google account will be told about which location-related account settings are enabled by default and given the option to disable them.
