A court in Australia has ruled that Google misled consumers on how it collected personal location data on Android mobile devices for almost two years. Justice Thomas Thawley from the Australian Federal Court ruled that Google, between January 2017 and December 2018, misrepresented the "location history" setting.

According to the judge, the Google Account setting allegedly helped Google collect, keep, or use "personally identifiable data about their location when consumers first create an account," reports ZDNet. The decision brought an end to a legal fight that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) commenced one and a half years ago.