Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, January 24th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, States sue Google for Data Shenanigants. Europe passes a landmark ad targeting and data law.

Apple's 2022 lineup according to Mark Germin, a look at the state of the

crypto crash and to what degree it's affecting NFTs.

And all this talk of Metavers has led to record VC investment in AR and VR startups,

but what some folks are starting to ask is,

even if we build it, do we have the infrastructure that will even allow the people to come?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Attorneys general from the District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana are suing Google, alleging

it deceived users to gain access to their location data, at least from 2014, quoting the Washington Post.

The lawsuits allege the company made misleading promises about its user's ability to protect

their privacy through Google account settings dating to at least 2014. The suits seek to stop Google from engaging in

these practices and define the company. The complaints also allege the

company has deployed so-called dark patterns or design tricks that can subtly

influence users decisions in ways that are

advantageous for a business. The lawsuits say Google has designed its products to

repeatedly nudge or pressure people to provide more and more location data, quote,

inadvertently or out of frustration, end quote.

The suits allege this violates various state and DC consumer protection laws.

Google uses tricks to continuously seek to track a user's location, said DC Attorney General

Carl A. Racine.

The suit by four Attorneys General on a bipartisan basis is an overdue enforcement action against a

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