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FOX 5 DC: Virginia to receive $10 million of Google’s $400 million tracking practices settlement

November 15, 2022

“The dollar amount of the settlement seems big but when you consider that the practices in question were spread across tens of millions of users it’s really only a few dollars per person,” said John Davisson with the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

“The settlement comes up short in a few key ways. It doesn’t really affect Google’s core business model. It doesn’t change the fact that the company is profiting handsomely from the personal data that it collects and uses to target advertising,” Davisson said.

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