Even though privacy is a rare thing in today’s tech- connected world, there still should be an expectation of privacy if users set their settings explicitly for such.

So it’s gratifying that Hawaii is part of a victorious 40-state lawsuit against search giant Google — receiving $4.7 million of $391.5 million total, in the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S. history.

Essentially, the states’ investigation validated findings in a 2018 Associated Press report that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they’d opted out of tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.” Let’s hope the problems have since been fixed, as Google claims.