Google probed in Australia for allegedly tracking phone users at their expense

Google probed in Australia for allegedly tracking phone users at their expense

Australian authorities launched an investigation into Google’s massive data harvest from smartphones, which reportedly allows the search giant to track users’ movements even with location services turned off. The investigations stem from findings made by the California-based software company Oracle, which revealed that Google was collecting up to one gigabyte of each users’ monthly phone data to secretly trace their location.