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Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities


Google recklessly violated privacy laws to spike ad profits, lawsuit says.

Likely due to promoting the website's convenience, the DMV reported a record number of online transactions in 2020, Wilson's complaint said. "That Plaintiff and Class Members would not have consented to Google obtaining their personal information or learning the contents of their communications with the DMV is not surprising." Congressman James P. Moran, who sponsored the DPPA in 1994, made it clear that the law was enacted specifically to keep marketers from taking advantage of computers making it easy to "pull up a person’s DMV record" with the "click of a button."

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