07.20.2020

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General News

Partner Jean-Jacques Cabou was quoted in the Arizona Capitol Times article, "Google Wants to Keep Data Tracking Secret," regarding Attorney General Mark Brnovich's claim that Google is defrauding Arizona consumers by collecting private information and then storing and sharing it with others.

Attorney Jean-Jacques Cabou contends there’s no basis for Brnovich’s complaint in the first place, arguing that anything the company is accused of doing does not run afoul of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act. That is the law that the attorney general is using to claim Google is defrauding Arizona consumers by collecting private information and then storing and sharing it with others.

But J says there can be no fraud because Google was not selling anything to Arizona consumers. And he said Arizonans knew that Google applications and phones using Google’s Android operating system were tracking them, then they agreed to it.